I have had it with this caucus system. It denies many of the electorate from voting for their party candidate. This year was no different than the 2008 caucus. It was disorganized. The electorate was uninformed. Many people were shut out from the voting.
Read your newspaper articles about all those who could not vote. They were the ones reported about. How many voters were not heard from who could not get to the caucus places or could not find the place or, most significant, were shut out because it started at 9 a.m. and ended at 9:30 a.m.?
To me this is not a way to allow the electorate an opportunity to cast their vote for their candidate of choice. This Republican Party and this state need to return to the primary system of allowing the electorate the freedom to select the person they want to represent them in government. This caucus system is flawed and unconstitutional.
It denies the right to vote for deployed service members, religious adherents, persons with disabilities or those in poor health, students who attend school away from home and shift workers unable to leave work. Caucuses have drastically lower voter turnout rates than primaries. Caucuses are not democratic. Put an end to this system that does not allow the electorate their opportunity to vote for their choice of candidate.
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