Let every vote count -- but only the votes of Hillary Clinton supporters. Don't let workers whose unions support Obama participate at all.

NevadaÂ’s state teachers union and six Las Vegas area residents filed a lawsuit late Friday that could make it harder for many members of the stateÂ’s huge hotel workers union to vote in the hotly contested Jan. 19 Democratic caucus in Nevada.

The 13-page lawsuit in federal district court here comes two days after the 60,000-member Culinary Workers Union Local 226 in Nevada endorsed Senator Barack Obama, a blow to Mrs. Clinton. Mr. Obama addressed the Culinary Union at their hall earlier Friday.

The lawsuit argues that the Nevada Democratic PartyÂ’s decision, decided late last year, to create at-large precincts inside nine Las Vegas resorts on caucus day violates the stateÂ’s election laws and creates a system in which voters at the at-large precincts can elect more delegates than voters at other precincts. The lawsuit employs a complex mathematical formula to show that voters at the other 1,754 precincts would have less influence with their votes.

Once again we see the problem with the caucus as a nominating device. Lot's of folks are immediately disenfranchised under that method. And now surrogates for the Clinton campaign are working to ensure that even more qualified participants are disenfranchised. Maybe they are trying to make sure that Hillary's statement about caucuses is true.

It is time to do away with the caucus in American politics.

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