Obama wins first voting abroad
05/02/2008 07:21  - (SA)  

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Jakarta - US Democratic Party voters in Indonesia, where Barack Obama spent part of his childhood, handed him a win over Hillary Clinton in the first voting abroad on Super Tuesday, party officials said.

Seventy-five percent of nearly 100 votes cast by expatriate Americans just past midnight went to Obama and 25% went to Clinton, Democrats Abroad officials here said.

Results still need formal verification.

Registered Democrats in Indonesia's capital Jakarta were the first to vote in person on the day of the US mega-primary, which will select more than half the delegates to the Democratic National Convention in August.

The convention will in turn choose the party's presidential candidate in the race for the White House.

Democrats are voting Tuesday in 21 states across the United States as well as American Samoa.

Voting for Democrats living overseas has now also begun and will last until February 12. They will send 22 delegates to the convention at which they will have a combined 11 votes.

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