Blog:Judge allows Vegas casino votes
A US judge has ruled that Las Vegas casinos may be used by Nevada Democrats for presidential voting on Saturday.
Observers say the decision may benefit Barack Obama, who has won the backing of the union representing many of the shift workers employed in the casinos.
The lawsuit, filed by a teachers’ group with ties to Hillary Clinton, argued it was unfair that only workers around the casinos could vote at their workplace.
Mr Obama, Mrs Clinton and John Edwards are competing to be the state’s pick.
Saturday’s caucuses - at which voters for each party in Nevada choose their preferred candidate to stand for president - will be the third contest for the Democratic candidates.
Mr Obama won the nomination in Iowa on 3 January, and Mrs Clinton came out on top in New Hampshire five days later. A vote in Michigan on Tuesday was largely symbolic
