Obama was for mail voting b4 he was against

MARCH 11, 2008

The Barack Obama campaign has been aggressively bashing the prospect of a vote-by-mail do-over election in Florida, with chief strategist David Axelrod calling it a "nightmare" and assorted Obama surrogates trashing the idea across the state.

The Buzz was intrigued by SB 979, the Vote by Mail Act of 2007 which provided assistance to states implementing mail voting. Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden had three co-sponsors for the Bill: Maria Cantwell, John Kerry and, yep, Barack Obama.

Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said there's no contradiction: "No, of course not. There is a logistical concern in trying to pull off something like this so quickly."

Posted by Adam Smith at 5:32:52 pm on March 11, 2008 in

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