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Thursday, February 07, 2008
(Updated) ACTION ALERT: Help Needed to Count Caucus Ballots
ATTENTION ALL
Volunteers needed to come to REDW
And help count provisional ballots.
6401 Jefferson St NE
Albuquerque, NM 87109
(505) 998-3200
Please call me at 975-8780 if you can help today, tomorrow or Saturday.
Today until 7pmTomorrow 7am - 7pm Friday 7am - 3pm , 7 - 10 pmSaturday 7am - 7pm Saturday 7am - 3pm, 7-10 pm
(hat tip to Mr. Terrell for updated times)
Thanks! Robert Adams
February 7, 2008 at 04:13 PM in 2008 Presidential Primary, Democratic Party | Permalink
Comments
OK, so democracy is a little bit messy, even in the US. The reason it is messy is because we WANT to count ballots, we WANT to include every voter who is eligible, we WANT to make it work. If it takes time, that is what it takes. Time to slow down and appreciate the sweat it takes to make democracy Democracy.
The sweat smell of democracy. It takes Work.
Posted by: bg | Feb 7, 2008 9:46:18 PM
Black Bean for Clinton and white bean for Obama in ONE big jar.
Shake.
Then they had to count them.
That's what made it so confusing.
One county brought in a big pot of bean soup!
This is so humiliating.
Anaya was right. This is a banana republic after all!
Patsy won CD1. Pinches.
Posted by: qofdisks | Feb 7, 2008 10:13:39 PM
The country is watching NM and wondering what went wrong here? It almost seems as if someone, somewhere, wanted the results delayed?? Only time will tell why.
Posted by: BBeatty | Feb 10, 2008 1:02:24 PM
What went wrong is that a huge turnout swamped the Party volunteers who conducted the caucus. A variety of factors resulted in many people filling out provisional ballots. These are complicated to qualify and count. The party first entered into negotiations with attorneys from both campaigns to settle on inclusive, consistent and transparent ground rules for deciding whether they are valid or not. Now every ballot possible is being counted because the race is so close here.
In many states where margins are larger, officials don't bother to count provisional ballots because they wouldn't make a difference. Here, they will probably make the difference between one candidate or the other winning the state, although only 1 more delegate would be awarded to the winner than to the other candidate.
There are judges from both sides watching closely, along with party officials and lots of volunteers. In my opinion the process is open and fair.
Posted by: | Feb 10, 2008 2:23:27 PM
