Wow! Odd way of going about it in Maine. Minnesota’s caucus system may be a little odd, but it is certainly grassroots. It enables one to select directly and on the spot who will be the delegates from your precinct. People can self-nominate, the list of names goes up on a blackboard and we vote by paper ballot. No funny business. These delegates go to the county convention and from there, smaller numbers are elected to go to the state convention and so on.
no Jedi don’t know the maine caucus system. The way he describes it is false.
The entire caucus elects the delegates right after the straw poll ... only 1% leave. Why would they leave if they move right from straw vote to delegates? The caucus attendees vote on the delegates from among themselves. Same as MN probably ... Maine has no proportional allocation like Iowa, however.
Yeah I was impressed MN’s caucus system. My precinct had 5 delegates eligible but only 10 people were present, so I could have easily been elected for the next level. I didn’t raise my hand because it was my first time and I didn’t know what the heck I was doing.