Hold an election with actual voting on machines rather than a caucus event with paper ballots.
Maybe a higher turnout of elgible voters would happen. A much higher turnout occurs in their
general elections.
The caucus format is designed to avoid high turn out....they only want those who care enough to caucus, which is a greater commitment than simply voting.
I’m not saying it’s a good thing or a bad thing, but the last thing they are going to do is turn the Iowa Caucuses into a normal standard primary election event.
Tradition. That, and a old classmate has told me the Caucas makes it so the parties can weed out lesser candidates. To be blunt, 2012 was a bug, it was a feature.
How are local precinct party chairs and county officers selected where you live? How do normal people get a say in the party platform where you live? Is it all top down?
The Iowa Caucuses are just neighborhood political party grass-roots housekeeping. The non-binding presidential preference poll was added to party organizational meetings around 1972 to add some interest to generally boring party meetings.
Much easier to get the result you want with voting machines.