A Look at the Nevada Elections: Were Voting Rights at Stake? -- by Tova Andrea Wang.

AScribe Law News Service, January, 2008

Byline: The Century Foundation

NEW YORK, Jan. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following is commentary by Tova Andrea Wang. Wang is a Democracy Fellow at The Century Foundation.

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In the run-up to the Nevada caucuses, supporters of Hillary Clinton sued the Democratic Party of Nevada, claiming that the allocation of delegates formula gave disproportionate weight to voters at the at-large casino caucuses where the Culinary Union, which endorsed Obama, had many of its members. It turns out that the teachers union that brought the suit was right to be concerned about the allocation process, but focused on the wrong part. It wasn't the formula applied to the casinos that they should have been worried about, it was the disproportionate weight that...

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