From a NV blogger about the suit: asks for delegate Re-formulation -and more:

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http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/1/15/123553/246#readmore

......Now, about the suit. I wrote about this the other day and it upset a few people, but the origins of the suit remain baffling. The case that the caucus system is unfair is a solid one and the problem of those who work Saturdays -- or who are disabled or unwell -- is a massive one. However, the suit doesn't ask for -- as the NSEA President alleges -- provisions to allow school janitors to vote; it asks for the delegate formulas at the at-large sites to revised or for those sites to be suppressed.

The case made in the suit is that the formula used to allocate delegates at regular precincts is 2% of registered Dems in that precinct. They argue that the at-large precincts allocate delegates based on roughly 20% of turnout at the precincts. So they argue that the at-large precincts get 10 times the delegates per voter as regular precincts. But that claim is only valid if all the registered Dems in regular precincts turn out; most estimates are for less than 10% turnout, so that the at-large precincts are likely to have a lower delegate to voter ratio than the regular precincts........