(A) spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, Phil Singer, said Mr. Obama was trying to disenfranchise Michigan and Florida voters.

Isn't that an interesting change in tune.  Just last October the Washington Post reported that while speaking about the Michigan Primary Senator Clinton suggested that our home State...

"...is not going to count for anything," Clinton said Thursday during an interview on New Hampshire Public Radio's call-in program, "The Exchange."

But just so we're not confused and so I don't get accused of rooting for one team over the other, the old disenfranchisement tag is flying from both camps.  The Associated Press reports:

Seventeen Democratic state House members said Tuesday they have several concerns about holding another election.

State Rep. Matt Gillard said he's worried about disenfranchising Democrats who voted in the Republican primary.

"These people that chose to vote in that Republican primary in January did so after being told by the DNC that the Democratic primary did not count. They weren't told that if they participated in a Republican primary they wouldn't be eligible to participate in a redo that was going to happen in June," the Obama supporter said.

First a quick note, it was the Senate Democrats yesterday that effectively killed the idea of a re-vote.  These House Democrats are just getting in on the action.  If there were only seventeen of them opposed to the idea that likely wouldn't be enough to stop passage in the House.  There are, however, almost certainly more than seventeen of them were that voting board to ever open.

But even there among Michigan officials we have charges of Democrat sponsored voter disenfranchisement.  

And let's be clear, it wouldn't only affect "Democrats."  The broader AP article argues that many Dems and independent voters cast GOP ballots because they weren't Hillary Clinton supporters.  Only Clinton supporters had any real chance to support their candidate.

I'd argue this way... at this point we know that John McCain is the GOP nominee.  Anyone who voted for anyone OTHER than John McCain in the Michgian GOP primary would ALSO be disenfranchised by that logic.  He is, after all, the only candidate currently on the ballot.  

Or you could look at it this way, if the argument is that limited options on the left forced people to vote in the GOP primary and that Democrats took advantage of that to play games with the GOP results then the concepts of fairness and equality would seem to mandate that the same limited options on the left forced Republicans to avoid playing games with the Democrat results.  Just re-read Matt Gillard's entire quote.  Could apply to anyone who voted in the GOP primary.

If you're going to open it up you've got to open it up for everybody, right? Otherwise, tsk tsk, you're disenfranchising voters. So says the Clinton campaign.  So says the Obama campaign.