Bribes and promises to cronies, who needs voters.
I remember when Oklahoma was a dry state and the local sheriffs made a good living shaking down illegal bars. I also remember when every single County Commissioner in the state was indicted and convicted or pled out to corruption charges save one.(Henry Campbell)
I know that people were smart enough to figure out a Commissioner whose salary was $400.00 a month really could not afford to buy a big farm and fill it with cattle, yet they stayed in office. Maybe they stayed in office because their powerful friends got their roads paved or a bridge built after the election.
The smart ones always kept their bar open and their road maintained. Is that the kind of smart you are so proud of.
Yeah I would say it is rigged.
Ah, the good ol' days. Paid my first two years at Okie State by bootlegging.
Then, they voted the state wet. So, I paid for the last two years by running a poker game.
Seems to me that a state party should be free to run their business as they wish. And rom the testimony of all the participants in the Colorado convention system, it sounds like amateurs were frequently elected as delegates and treated fairly.
Indeed, the party regulars were so "in control" that they couldn't get their own nominee for U.S. Senate elected. The insurgent nominee -- Darryl Glenn -- won with 70% of the vote.
Forgive me, but I don't see a problem with the system.