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Voter Suppression!

By Dan McLaughlin Posted in 2008 | Rooting For Injuries — Comments (7) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

The Obama camp throws out the same racially-tinged Election-Day charges against Hillary that the Democrats traditionally use against Republicans:

Our campaign's goal today is to ensure that any registered voter in the state of Ohio can go to the polls and cast their ballot for their candidate of choice without interference. We understand that the Clinton campaign may want to depress turnout because Barack Obama has closed a 20-point gap over the course of this month as voters across the state got to know him.

It has been the hallmark of the Democratic party to educate and protect the rights of voters. If the Clinton campaign disagrees with that principle, they should say so today.

We have received reports from around the state of independents and Republicans who chose to vote in the Democratic primary receiving issue only or Republican ballots instead of the Democratic ballot they were entitled to. We have also had reports that the voter ID requirements have been misstated at various locations, causing some voters to be turned away.

We will take action when necessary to ensure that all eligible voters are able to cast their votes and to have their votes counted.

We will continue to monitor the polls to ensure that all Ohioans who choose to participate in today's election are able to do so regardless of who they choose to vote for.

Of course, there are less-than-respectable reasons why Democrats traditionally fume about things like voter-ID requirements on Election Day. But either way, the important thing is that the "vote suppression" charge is being leveled in an election where Republicans aren't even involved.

UPDATE: Texas too!

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-N.Y.) campaign charged rival Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) campaign with breaking several rules in the Texas caucuses.

The Clinton campaign called an "emergency" conference call with reporters that was interrupted by Obama's chief counsel Bob Bauer, who called in and said the Clinton campaign only criticized the caucus process when it was losing.

. . . [T]he Clinton campaign charged that the Obama campaign had shut the doors on Clinton supporters at some of the caucuses, among other things.

The campaign also said the Obama camp had hijacked some of the caucus packets at certain precincts, adding that in others Obama supporters were calling in caucus results before the polls had closed.