Democratic Caucus Problems Revealed
POSTED: 7:24 pm MST March 5,
2008
UPDATED: 9:49 pm MST March 5,
2008
EL PASO, Texas -- On Wednesday, the Clinton campaign in El Paso said her lawyers are compiling a number of complaints from Democrats who attended Tuesday's caucuses.The complaints from the Clinton campaign include Obama supporters intimidating voters, giving caucus goers wrong information, and changing people's votes at those caucuses."It was shocking. It was shocking, I could not believe it," said Rosa Soto from Northeast El Paso.Soto is talking about what she saw at her caucus Tuesday night at Crosby Elementary. She said an Obama supporter was filling in Obama's name for other people."I asked her, 'What are you doing?' and she said 'they left it blank.' I said, 'But you're not supposed to be writing anything,'" said Soto.Soto said the woman also told people it was OK to leave after signing in, so while they had 120 people sign up, only 100 voted."By the time we counted the numbers, it was only 62 people for Hillary and 38 for Mr. Obama, and we thought, 'something happened here,'" said Soto.The Clinton campaign in El Paso said they are investigating dozens of voter complaints in the Sun City alone.At the El Paso Democratic Party headquarters, they were looking into these issues."Any of that that was not correctly made, that will be corrected, so the county can be pretty well assured that anything that was supposed to be done properly is going to be properly," said El Paso Democratic Party Chairman Danny Anchondo.Anchondo said they are also working on improving the other problems of Tuesday's caucuses, such as precinct chairs not showing up and issues with election officials."It's something that unfortunately happened, but something we can fix," said Anchondo.KFOX contacted the Obama campaign in El Paso to see if they had received any complaints. They said besides a few overly excited Democrats, the caucuses went well, and they believe in the Texas Democratic primary process.
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