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Article: CAUCUS-NIGHT VOTE-SWAPPING COULD TILT IOWA
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 9, 2004
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DES MOINES - For the first time in decades, a quirk in the Iowa
nominating contest on Jan. 19 - vote-swapping on caucus night - could
determine the outcome of the Democratic presidential contest here,
according to advisers for several campaigns who are mapping
strategies to swing stray votes in the final hours.
With candidates required to win at least 15 percent of the voters
in each precinct to survive, strategists assume a number of
candidates will fall short - freeing their caucus voters to support
other campaigns.
Several campaigns are developing ways to swing support in some of
the 1,990 precincts on caucus night - to benefit their own candidate
or to hurt someone else.
At headquarters ...