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Nevada Caucuses - How does this happen?

Mar 14, 2003
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So watching the news and I sit here and say "how does this happen?" How do you run out of ballots at sites? How do people at sites not know who to turn their ballots in to? I mean really? With as record setting as the caucuses/primaries have been, how are you not prepared?

This is all from watching Fox News.
 
No ID's being checked, people just being handed ballots, etc...

Heck, Ted Cruz just might win. Things like this are right up his alley.
 
Nevada Republican Party says no irregularities, if you're going by what's on twitter "take a deep breath". This is straight from MSNBC.
 
Nevada has "no specific" closing time tonight. Wow, I thought the Iowa Caucuses were a joke and now this.

I am 100% convinced caucuses need to be a thing of the past. Go to all primaries.
 
Nevada has "no specific" closing time tonight. Wow, I thought the Iowa Caucuses were a joke and now this.

I am 100% convinced caucuses need to be a thing of the past. Go to all primaries.
So now you want the national government to be larger and stronger (more regulatory)? States should be in charge of their election rules, procedures and voting hours.
 
From reports and pics online, appears like Trump shirts and hats are standard uniform for poll workers. Early reports have Trump at between 120 and 130 percent of the vote.
 
First off, the Nevada Caucus structure is entirely different than what is used in Iowa. It is actually a hybrid caucus/primary. When you arrive, you can simply cast your ballot and leave immediately, or you can participate in the full caucus process which includes electing delegates to the state and national convention. That process takes about a full 3 hours. They had been reporting for over two weeks that they had a significant shortage of volunteers and with the expected increase in participants, they were informing perspective voters that things would most likely run slower than anyone would like.

As far as a volunteer at one of the sites wearing campaign gear, that is legal in Nevada. Remember this is not a bipartisan state run polling station. It is a partisan party nomination caucus.
 
If you aren't watching MSNBC, you should be. Every time any reporter or Republican strategist points out an obvious observation that sheds a positive light on Trump tonight, Butch and Tingle rein it back in so quickly that you would think you were watching Telemundo or something.
 
First off, the Nevada Caucus structure is entirely different than what is used in Iowa. It is actually a hybrid caucus/primary. When you arrive, you can simply cast your ballot and leave immediately, or you can participate in the full caucus process which includes electing delegates to the state and national convention. That process takes about a full 3 hours. They had been reporting for over two weeks that they had a significant shortage of volunteers and with the expected increase in participants, they were informing perspective voters that things would most likely run slower than anyone would like.

As far as a volunteer at one of the sites wearing campaign gear, that is legal in Nevada. Remember this is not a bipartisan state run polling station. It is a partisan party nomination caucus.

My wife and I attended our caucus and while it was quite crowded, there were no issues. When we walked in, we noticed tables where people wearing campaign "gear" were sitting so we simply went over to one of these (My wife is a Carson supporter, so we went there). A woman gave her a "Ben" lapel sticker and then walked her through the process of getting her ballot and turning it in. I then duplicated the process to cast my Kasich ballot. I got my Kasich sticker after the fact, but anyone who wanted to could self-identify in this manner.

There were quite a few Trump T-shirts and hats around, but no one was intrusive; they simply wanted to show off that they were Trump people.

We did not stay for the other stuff, but on the way out we were stopped a couple of times by candidates running for local offices and given handouts and other campaign literature ... which was fine.

The whole thing had a kind of County Fair atmosphere and was great fun. It looked chaotic, but really was quite organized and orderly. We each had to show a picture ID in order to receive our ballot and they used the identical process that is used in general and primary elections in Nevada. We signed in the book and they compared our signature to the facsimile they had in the book before handing us the ballot..

We stopped to eat on the way home and ran into a small group of other caucus voters who wanted to talk about the whole thing ... They were mostly wearing Cruz stuff, which was fine; they still seemed to like us OK.
 
My wife and I attended our caucus and while it was quite crowded, there were no issues. When we walked in, we noticed tables where people wearing campaign "gear" were sitting so we simply went over to one of these (My wife is a Carson supporter, so we went there). A woman gave her a "Ben" lapel sticker and then walked her through the process of getting her ballot and turning it in. I then duplicated the process to cast my Kasich ballot. I got my Kasich sticker after the fact, but anyone who wanted to could self-identify in this manner.

There were quite a few Trump T-shirts and hats around, but no one was intrusive; they simply wanted to show off that they were Trump people.

We did not stay for the other stuff, but on the way out we were stopped a couple of times by candidates running for local offices and given handouts and other campaign literature ... which was fine.

The whole thing had a kind of County Fair atmosphere and was great fun. It looked chaotic, but really was quite organized and orderly. We each had to show a picture ID in order to receive our ballot and they used the identical process that is used in general and primary elections in Nevada. We signed in the book and they compared our signature to the facsimile they had in the book before handing us the ballot..

We stopped to eat on the way home and ran into a small group of other caucus voters who wanted to talk about the whole thing ... They were mostly wearing Cruz stuff, which was fine; they still seemed to like us OK.
Good post, although it's a little short on outrage and conspiracy. Next time try harder to find something nefarious.
 
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