Posted on 01/18/2008 2:41:32 PM PST by mommya
January 18, 2008 3:10 pm EST
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – Today, the Ron Paul 2008 campaign is calling on the Nevada State Republican Party to re-examine multiple inconsistencies in the Nevada Caucus process, and to consider postponing the caucus, which is scheduled for Saturday, January 19.
“The inconsistencies, errors and multiple changes in the rules reek of playing politics with the what should be a neutral process,” said Ron Paul 2008 campaign manager Lew Moore. “The people of Nevada deserve to know exactly what the rules are and to know that those rules are being fairly enforced. This has not happened up to this point, and the caucus appears to be in chaos.”
The problem of multiple rule changes is being compounded by other inconsistencies and errors in the process. Many Nevada Republicans have received postcards with incorrect information about their caucus location, and the Nevada GOP website had incorrect caucus locations listed as late as Wednesday, January 16.
Additionally, one or more county chairs have expressed concerns over an insufficient number of ballots, and the Ron Paul campaign has heard reports that rural counties are short of ballots, while Clark County precincts were given what is regarded as far too many ballots.
The Ron Paul campaign has learned that the Nevada Republican Party has changed the rules for eligibility requirements for caucusing three times since January 9. Last summer when the January 19 caucus was set, the Nevada GOP announced that caucus would be closed and only for Republicans who had registered by December 19.
On January 10, 2008, a caucus director for the Nevada Republican Party reversed the earlier policy and anounced a new standard by stating that any person who asserts that they are a registered Republican in the precinct but cannot be found in the voter rolls that the Republican party has, would be able to participate if they signed an affidavit attesting to the fact that they were a registered Republican. Then, on January 15 the Ron Paul campaign received communication from the state party that the affidavits would not be used.
However, on January 17 the policy was changed for a third time, as the state party announced that affidavits would be in use throughout the state, subject to the discretion of county central committees and chairs.
The Nevada Republican Party is changing the rules from week to week, and currently the rules will not even be uniform across the state, as eligibility rules may differ from county to county.
Given the caucus location confusion – with potential caucus participants not knowing where to go – and the new rule effectively allowing anyone to get a ballot, the Ron Paul campaign is concerned that the confusion surrounding the caucus will both disenfranchise voters and make the election particularly susceptible to vote fraud.
Where’s the pic? ... screwballs.
Huh?
Fair enough but why change the rules back and forth so close to caucus time? The rules should be clearly established well ahead of time.
Nevada is not supposed to have "open" caucuses.
There was one area where he was weak and another one where he appeared to be a little confused but upon careful reading it was Brit Hume's fault not Paul's.
It was during that debate that I made up my mind to support only Ron Paul,at least until the elections in November.
You have been here since 2001 and you still don’t know how to post properly.
Sorry. I have posted very few times. What did I do wrong?
That’s awful...we have never had any problems over here.
So FReepers support vote fraud now?
Ron Paul reminds me of Lyndon LaRouche.
Personally, I find it pretty disgusting that so many Freepers are OK with letting county chairs decide who gets to vote just because they think it will hurt a candidate they don't like this time around.
On top of disgusting, it becomes outright stupid when it is all to hurt a candidate who doesn't have a shot of winning anyway.
That "nut" has more votes and money than both Rudy and Fred Thompson. He may outlast the two of them as well.
Only Paul can compete nationally, while the other GOP candidates are confined to the specific early primary state that they blew their fortunes on. And remember that these early states had some of their delegates stripped because they violated party rules. Paul has consistently gotten 6%-10% in each of the three states so far. This is a beautiful rope-a-dope campaign by Paul, he's taken all of his hits and the only "scandal" associated with Paul is the already debunked newsletters and the usual guilt-by-association smears. All Paul has to do is place high in both states & that'll give him a huge momentum boost to Super Tuesday. It'll even help with the MLK Money Bomb too.
UPDATE - Case dismissed - with a nasty comment thrown in for good measure.
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/01/nevada_gop_dism.html
This guy is accusing Paul’s campaign of being disorganized when it’s obvious it is they who are disorganized.
Oh...and it loooks like Paul's Chief of staff has resigned:
http://libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com/2008/01/has-tom-lizardo-resigned-as-ron-pauls.html
Dude, which debate were you watching??? Ron Paul looked like a blithering idiot. Surely you are not serious???
Paul is at $1.3 million right now!
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