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In reply to the discussion: Would you support the general elections be held in caucus format [View all]jwirr
(39,215 posts)but planks into the proposed Democratic Platform at our caucus and the one I proposed was adding a voter mail in rule to allow those who did not have the time to come in to vote also.
Our caucus began registration at 6:30 and voting started at 7:00 going until everyone who was there had voted. The counting started as soon as the voting was done right there in plain sight of all of us.
Many voters came in between 6:30 and 8:00 just to vote. They left because they had to do other things or did not care about the other business. If there was also a mail in that would mean everyone who wanted to vote could.
One of my biggest likes about a caucus system is that we in the party are allowed to work together on party business: voting for county officers, proposing planks for the national party platform, electing the delegates to the first convention and getting to know each other. We also have a system that can be expanded when needed like this year. As soon as the County leaders saw that they did not have enough ballots they started making more paper ballots and they added tables for registration so that the lines would move faster. In a machine operated poll that cannot be done so you have people standing in line to vote until 1:00 in the morning (AZ).