Super Tuesday Results: Clinton takes California
As of right now, Clinton has taken California (the biggest prize), New York, Arkansas, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Arizona, Tennessee, Oklahoma.
Obama won Illinois, Georgia, Alabama, Minnesota, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Utah, Kansas, North Dakota, and Idaho.
As with any election there will be scandal. Obama’s camp is complaining about alleged voting irregularities in San Francisco and Oakland, but Clinton supporters said he should have prepared his voters better for the complicated ballot.
The problem stems from the possibility that voters who did not want to declare a party affiliation did not receive Democratic ballots. Under the state’s Decline to State rules, unaffiliated voters are allowed to receive and vote using Democratic ballots.
“The Decline to State rule should not be a surprising problem,” a Clinton campaign official told NBC affiliate KNTV of San Francisco on condition of anonymity. “It is the height of cynicism for the Obama campaign to be raising these issues. This is nothing more than a cynical attempt to create confusion and cast doubt.”
The problems may have occurred not only in San Francisco and Oakland, but in Los Angeles and San Diego, as well, according to the Obama campaign.
An official with the Elections Department said she did not believe anybody had been denied his or her right to vote, but Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo called upon state and county officials to look into reports of voter confusion. [source]
According to my sources, the ballot was very confusing. In Berkeley, they ran out of ballots and also some areas of Alameda county the polls stayed open until 10 PM to accommodate the long lines.
Also, we do not know what the delegation count is and will probably not know until in the morning. I will let you know the details as soon as I find out.
