No IDs. We are told that’s NEVER a problem, right?
Caucuses in every state that has them are a mess. Need to stop the b.s. and go to voting booths and stop the ancient nonsense.
I’m in Colorado ( a caucus state) and I agree it’s a mess, mostly because
a) the system is so complicated it pixxes off everybody.
b) finding volunteers to staff the caucuses is extremely difficult.
c) it only happens once in awhile, so the people in charge are all rookies.
It would be so much better to just do a closed primary.
This is why you have to have citizens monitoring both the primary and general election days process against voter fraud.
No IDs. We are told that’s NEVER a problem, right?
Caucuses in every state that has them are a mess. Need to stop the b.s. and go to voting booths and stop the ancient nonsense.”””
Have no idea where this was supposed to be happening.
I went to the school where 6 precincts here in the valley where I live rural were meeting. The line was already 50’ long BEFORE 5 PM, however it was moving very nicely.
We ALL had to show ID—and a man was repeating that before we entered. He also was telling us what number our precinct was. as we showed him our ID in the line. Inside, there were 3 tables put together lengthwise, and we had to go to the correct precinct table (out of 6) to be found in the voter lists, our ID was verified AGAIN, and we had to SIGN the book to enter further. No ballots were being given out without signing the book.
Then, we were handed a ballot & a questionaire about how we wanted things to improve in the country, and we advanced into the gym to our precinct grouping of a table & chairs.
Each grouping of chairs had a person who was recording our names AGAIN, our addresses & e-mails if we wished. She was sort of acting as moderator/secretary.
However, they made it clear that you could just vote your ballot, put it into the correct receptacle and leave if you didn’t have time to caucus.
I stayed about 2 hours, but then got tired of one woman at our table who could only bash Trump-—His wives are dumb—only arm candy—He is being mean to our best allies & they won’t work with us in the future-—Trump will start WW III-—He is only successful because he got such a large wad of money from his father-—on & on. She claimed she wanted to vote for Kasich, but she couldn’t pronounce his name nor could she spell it. She had trouble finding it on the ballot. I know this woman from other activity in the valley & she is 1000% sour grapes & not very bright, despite her claims that she has a college degree in ‘administration’. The moderator had to try to get her back on track over & over again.
When we left, the line outside was over 200 feet long and they had opened up extra parking in a field. No one looked like they were leaving because of the wait. I would love to know the exact turnout in this valley.
However——NOWHERE did I get ANY impression that people were getting ballots without showing ID & signing in.
This community uses many of the same workers at our polls, and it isn’t that big a valley. We know each other.
I am pretty sure that Trump did very well here. People are angry at Washington & ‘the Establishment’. Lots of ranching around here, also & they are angry at the Administrations handling of the Bundy family & the Hammond family.