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Clinton Loses Two Illinois Delegates
Produced by Tony Arnold on Thursday, March 13, 2008
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Hillary Clinton in Washington yesterday (AP Photo / Carolyn Kaster) |
Illinois U.S. Senator Barack Obama officially picked up two more delegates today in his bid for the White House. They were awarded to him after the Illinois Board of Elections recalculated the delegates assigned after the state's primary.
In the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, only a hundred or so delegates separate Obama from New York Senator Hillary Clinton. But the process for counting those delegates is complex, to say the least. Dan White is the executive director of the Illinois Board of Elections. He says there was a mix-up in awarding Clinton two delegates from Chicago's South Side.
WHITE: It was an oversight on our part. We did review this to make sure, but for some reason it was not calculated.
White says Clinton lost the delegates because she didn't receive the required 15 percent of the vote in two South Side congressional districts. The Clinton campaign did not immediately respond to our calls for comment.
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DinSea, Ashland, Oregon // Thursday, March 13, 2008 @ 10:08 PM
When, oh when ... will we get uniformed, standardized, efficient election procedures? Shouldn't someone take up this monumental task and get a federal elections guide book constructed to be fair among all states and counties? All the lessons learned over the years should have provided us with a solution - what's the problem? Why are we still in the dark ages when trying to tally the votes? Perhaps a percentage of campaign funds should go into a "Vote Squad" to police elections results and to keep the system clean.
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low-tech cyclist, Chesapeake Country // Friday, March 14, 2008 @ 3:57 PM
I understand your frustration, DinSea, but remember how this works.
First of all, the parties get to choose their own nominees in their own ways - and they're private organizations, outside of anyone's control.
Second, the states can schedule primaries which (a) the parties are free to recognize or not, as they see fit; and (b) the Federal government has no real power to regulate.
We'd probably have to amend the Constitution to come up with a unified, intelligible system for choosing the nominees, and that isn't gonna happen in the next few decades.
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wolf62656, central illinois // Monday, March 17, 2008 @ 8:04 AM
I have nothing against having a woman as President. I am just not willing to vote for another 4 years with a Clinton in charge. No Billary in '08.
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