I just read why 64 Bernie NV delegates had their credentials stripped--and I shed a tear or two

[srobert]

166. The (Un) Democratic Process for Selecting the Democratic Nominee.

The process for Nevada Democratic voters is 4 step:

1.) Caucus : Precinct voters send delegates to county conventions.
2.) County Convention: Delegates vote to send a subset of delegates to state convention.
3.) State Convention: Delegates vote to send another subset to the national convention.
4.) National Convention: Where pledged delegates are added to the super-delegates, who don't really vote until the convention.

At each stage delegates can fail to show up, fail to follow the rules, or just change their minds about what candidate they support. Officials in the process can manipulate the rules, through selective enforcement, dissemination of misinformation about the process, etc.

At the Nevada County conventions in April, Sander's delegates overturned the February caucus results, (mostly because Clinton delegates failed to show up). Clinton voters felt that they were cheated. Yesterday at the state level, 58 delegates from Sanders side were disallowed because they were allegedly not registered as Democrats. But that sounds suspicious. Who changed the voter registrations for the 58 delegates? Did they change their own registrations? If so, why? If not, then, I suppose, the level of wrong-doing might involve criminal charges.

There are lots of allegations of cheating floating around. Whenever one side is accused of cheating, the other side begins to feel that a bit of counter-cheating is morally defensible.

The entire process for selecting a nominee is overly complicated. With each complication the opportunity and motivation for cheating increases. It should be simplified and made more democratic. The very first step toward that, in my opinion, would be that at the national level, super-delegates should NOT exist.