Inside a Texas caucus »
Posted by: jovial 6 months agoThe Texas two-step voting process.
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Ratskii6 months ago
Minnesota is a caucus only system right now, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it move to a duel system, like Texas has.
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Obaku6 months ago
The Republican version was less confusing - just elect a slate of delegates - no proportionality, winner take all.
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nostalgia6 months ago
Texas caucus fracas could end up in court
The Clinton and Obama campaigns traded accusations of primary day shenanigans in Texas.
That prompted the Democratic Party to issue a stern reprimand to follow the rules.
http://www.keyetv.com/content/news/topnews/stor...
There is story after story about the chaos and confusion
ANDY MARTIN
There is something fundamentally sick about the Democratic Party's presidential candidate selection process. The Democratic Party has become a disgrace to American democracy.
It is impossible for voters to influence the outcome because each primary means almost nothing and votes are rigged in ways that are impossible to decipher. In short, the Democrats' selection process is neither democratic nor transparent.
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nostalgia6 months ago
Texas: Why would any state hold a primary and then negate that vote by making people vote a second time in an unorganized election with no controls or supervision by state officials? Clinton did not win a photo-finish. A 4 point spread is a solid win. But Clinton may have received fewer delegates than Obama, because of the way votes are undercounted in majority areas and overcounted in minority neighborhoods. What kind of an "election" is that? Where the winner gets fewer delegates than the loser? That's racism in reverse. Whites and Latinos were disenfranchised.
Bottom line: the selection procedures for Democratic Party presidential candidates is rigged, fixed, and grossly undemocratic. If Clinton really wants to serve the people, she should demand 'one person, one vote,' and seek to reform and eliminate all of the crooked procedures that contaminate democracy in so any states from coast-to-coast.
http://www.pr-inside.com/andy-martin-says-the-d...
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bill29366 months ago
Actually, the Caucus does not negate the primary votes. It is just that about 2/3 of the delegates are selected by the primary, the remainder are selected in the Caucus. As for Hillary getting fewer delegates, it is not due to an undercount, but due to the fact that in Texas the Democrats allocate delegates in accordance to Democrat voting percentages in the previous election. Thus Obama won the percients with more delegates allocated that the precients that Hillary won. So it is not fixed or rigged, it is according to the Rules set up years ago by the Democrats. Are Hillary supporters complaining about the rules? Note also that Hillary's troops were signing in early because of another rule they were trying to use, which allows for a caucus location to be moved if the people present vote for it. They were hoping to get a majority of their people there early (thus the 6:45 in the ads), so they could move it prior to the Obama people showing up.
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bluetexasvalley6 months ago
It works the same way as the national system: the primary is the popular vote and the caucus is the "electoral college". Get it?
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