Here is Another

firsthand account:

Hi All, it was really intereating. Our group came out with the best deal we could get for the time being. I was in Sparks precinct 6108. There were less than 100 people. We had 7 Kucinich (staunchly so) and 8 Edwards people (staunchly so). Worked out the best we could. Closed togeher to form undecided. We got 2 delegates, so we each took one, and will go to the next level with one uncommitted delegate where we hope to meet up with other uncommitted. I have to look up to see if we can do that again at the next level if we dont have enough Kucinich votes to be viable again. We did have a problem that we are going to protest. The rules say if a person does not live in the precinct they cannot caucus at that precinct. Since registration was allowed at the last minute, anyone who actually lived in the precinct could register and vote legally. I am 67, blind in one eye, cant see out of the other. I received a precinct card with my correct present address, but the wrong precinct which I knew was the wrong precinct. It was in Reno. I landed at my correct precinct. I registered a change of address at the last minute legally. We had several people come in who said they didnt know where to caucus, They were allowed to stay. None of these lost souls were from Richardson, Gravel, Biden, Dodd, Edwards or Kucinich. They were from Clinton and Obama. So we are protesting that. We want a review of the addresses given to the registrar, and if the addresses were wrong, those votes should be discounted. It really is up to the voter to get themselves to the correct precinct. And if you are confused, start early enough to get it straightened out before caucus. If we can get the votes discounted, it wont change our delegate count, but will change the mathematical numbers. There was a discrepancy on the first ballot. AND guess who turned in more votes to the chair? Obama and Clinton. When we had the body count, that is when the discrepancy came up. So, they had to recount the individual groups to tally with the body count. We had a real crackerjack in our group. He was onto all this in a flash. He is running for county commissioner. I gather he has quite a rep around town for being outspoken. His name is Gary Schmitt. Vote for him. County Commissioner. The othe point of order we are protesting., All of the undecided or uncommitted participants objected to the 15% viability. There were less than a hundred people there, and some of them may not have belonged there according to written rules.
How did it go in your precincts and did you notice any of this type of bending of rules? I heard that in precinct 8209 they let people leave and instead of doing a body count, they counted ballots. We found our discrepancy in the body count over the tallies turned in by the groups. Paperwork and ballots werent guarded well in our precinct and one Obama supporter complained because all our registration info was left outside unguarded while we were balloting. It could have walked away. There would have been no records left. Keep in mind the NH recount is turning up discrepancies in most precincts. Check in please. Hope you all had a great time. We had two great groups, Kucinich and Edwards. We told the lobbyists for the other groups to just get lost. We were trying to get ourselves viable in some way and we did. HOORAY


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