(03-11) 15:24 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --
Barack Obama's campaign has concerns about the possibility of Florida and Michigan holding a Democratic presidential vote by mail, the candidate's senior strategist said Tuesday.
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David Axelrod, Obama's senior strategist, told reporters Tuesday that the campaign is reserving final judgment until a plan is offered.
"But obviously there are concerns about a mail-in vote. I mean, there are concerns about eligibility, ballot security," he said during a conference call. "The state of Oregon has mail-in voting, and it took them more than a decade to perfect it to the point where they felt that they could run a statewide campaign through mail-in votes. And now we're going to turn this process over to parties within the states to run on with a matter of weeks to prepare."
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Clinton's campaign did not immediately respond Tuesday to a request for comment. But her top Florida supporter, Sen. Bill Nelson, has been promoting a primary by mail, and his office has been consulting with officials in Oregon about how they handle it.
In Michigan, Sen. Carl Levin told reporters Monday that a "caucus-by-mail" approach appeared to be the only practical way of settling Michigan's delegate dispute. But Levin earlier this week raised concerns of his own.
Two co-chairman of Obama's campaign in Michigan also say they're leery of redoing the primary by mail. They'd prefer that the DNC evenly split Michigan's 128 delegates between Clinton and Obama, who was not on the primary ballot because he didn't want to anger other early voting states.
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