Re:Democrats Declined DHS Offer to Test Caucus App
by freewilly1040 on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @12:46PM
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There's a pretty clear conflict of interest between the Buttigieg work of helping his campaign and the caucus tabulating work for the DNC. There might not be actual foul play, but the reason we look to avoid conflicts of interest in things like this is that it's easier to establish a lack of conflict of interest than it is to establish a lack of foul play.
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Re:Democrats Declined DHS Offer to Test Caucus App
by esoterica on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @01:27PM
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Most people working in politics have done work for a zillion other candidates and the state/national party apparatus before. That’s the nature of political work; campaigns only last a few months so people are always job hopping. If that counts as a conflict of interest than every staffer for every single candidate is guilty of a conflict of interest.
Re:Democrats Declined DHS Offer to Test Caucus App
by freewilly1040 on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @01:59PM
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You're supporting my point. If a staffer worked for a campaign and in a role in charge of election integrity at the same time, as this firm is doing, it would indeed be considered a conflict of interest.
Re:Democrats Declined DHS Offer to Test Caucus App
by kelnos on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @02:33PM
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I think the parent's point is that if you only consider contractors/staffers who don't have conflicts of interest of this sort, your hiring pool drops to a number that is too small to be useful.
Whether or not that's true is debatable, but I think it's a compelling point.