A lot of Hot Air (.com) from one Ed Morrissey, whose “solution” is to throw out the baby with the bath water.
Seems to me the real problem in NV (and SC, too) was simply that the state’s political parties held their caucuses on different dates, which allows everyone to participate in more than just their own caucus.
If Iowa’s Democrats didn’t hold their caucuses concurrently with the Republicans, I likely would have attended theirs, too, just for the Operation Chaos factor.
ONE MORE TIME:
Democratic caucus rules allowed for people to register AT their Dem caucus-—and to vote that day—Feb 20, Saturday. There was NO way for any of those last second registration papers to be vetted for accuracy-—even to the point of that person even being a citizen. BUT-—the Dems count those votes gleefully.
HOWEVER-—The Republican caucus rules called for a person to be registered Republican by Feb 13th. Since that was a Saturday, effectively, you had to be registered by 5 PM on Friday, Feb 12 with the County officials.
I went to my caucus. It was polite & I saw no evidence of chaos. They may have run out of ballots, but more were being delivered all over N Nevada which I have first hand knowledge of. People waited for those ballots to come & they got to vote. No complaining-—quietly waited—over 100 at just one location.
I had to show ID to get in the building at 4:40 PM. Then I had to show either my driver’s license or my Republican voter registration card, which showed my precinct number on it. Then, the poll worker for that precinct—at a separate table, as were each of the other 5 precincts-—went thru my precinct roll book and found my name, etc. I had to SIGN that book, and my signature had to match the electronic one in the book. ONLY after all of this was I given a ballot. I was clearly told I could vote & leave or I could go into the gym & caucus at the table for precinct 26.
I went inside for about 2 hours. I had to give my name, phone number & address to the person monitoring the table & chairs for Precinct 26 after I got into the gym. We had a lively and polite discussion. I left at 6:40 PM or so. When I went outside, there was a line 2-4 wide for over 200 feet long, waiting to get their vote recorded. They were happy and patient about the wait. Extra parking had been opened up in the adjacent athletic field. We live rural, and that is not unusual-—even for school football games.
I saw no evidence of hanky-panky of any kind, and nothing that made me wonder what was going on.
As far as I am concerned, all of these stories are dirty tricks from the DNC & those who didn’t pay attention to the rules.
I did learn the next day that one neighbor about 6 blocks away tried to vote at the Republican caucus. He is a registered Democrat. He had to change his registration by 5 PM on Feb 12. He went without doing such a change & was indignant & pissed that they WOULD NOT LET HIM VOTE. This POS does nothing all day long but watch TV, so I am at a loss as to why he didn’t know he COULD NOT DO THAT at the
Republican caucus. His ranting don’t bother me a bit.
This was my first caucus, despite living in Nevada for 3 election cycles. I was impressed by the organization & the people staffing the event. All were polite & very helpful and knew the answer to questions.
All these stores are fiction, as far as I know & saw.