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Superdelegate candidate calls for recount
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by Clynt Ridgell, KUAM News
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
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While the Democratic Party of Guam completed tallying the votes for its presidential primary caucus on Sunday, it appears that the debate over the results wages on. Democratic superdelegate candidate Joseph Cameron has officially requested a recount of the ballots for the presidential and delegate races, citing various reasons including things like spoiled ballots. "There may be some spoiled ballots that made it through to the good ballot side and vice-versa," Cameron pointed out to KUAM News, "And there may be some good ballots were considered spoiled."
Democratic Party of Guam nominating committee chairwoman Herbie Perez says that there is no way that spoiled ballots and good ballots got mixed up, saying, "I have reviewed a lot of the spoiled ballots, and it's really spoiled. It's not like the counters missed it or it's really spoiled."
Cameron also alleges that there may have been missing ballots, saying, "If 6,000 ballots were printed and at the end of the day, only a small amount came back. The accounting of every ballot is critical in doing a check and balance and I believe having heard directly from the committee that they were missing many ballots."
Perez, however, says that this is completely false. Asked if any ballots were indeed missing, she said, "No, not that I know of. I don't know where they get that information. That there was a missing ballot, but we never mention a missing ballot."
Cameron also says that the bylaws in the Guam Democratic Party Constitution require a convention in order to allow for things like registration on the same day as the vote. While Perez admits that she herself was against the same day registration she says it was approved by the CEC and then approved by the Democratic National Convention. Ultimately it will be up to the CEC to decide whether it should certify the results or conduct a recount, and this according to Perez will be decided when they meet this Thursday.
Cameron also alleges other possible problems with the election, including the possibility that non-U.S. citizens may have been allowed to vote. This is something that Perez says is not possible, adding that she has even spoken to both the Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton camps and neither are planning to protest the election.
Read a press release from the campaign directors about the caucus
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