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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Evilhalfling" data-source="post: 4098664" data-attributes="member: 16991">County Caucus ReportSo I thought I would post an update to my experiance, as there was a second caucus this weekend, this time it was a lot more clear what was going on, and why.  This event was called the "county" caucus, and hundreds of delegates and alternates showed up.  Delegates could still change thier stated preference for presidential nominee, but all it determined was who that delegate could represent at the next level of caucus, the split between the canidates was determined by the orginal event.  (colorado split 67%/32%) The convention first nominated people to the state legislature - in most cases** they were unopposed, at least until they run against the other parties in the general election. Again delegates were selected to represent each presidential canidate at the next level. there are 2 more caucus events and both will select delegates to go to the national convention. One is the "state" caucus and it will also nominate the US senate canidate for the party. the other is the : "congressional" caucus and it will nominate the US house of representatives canidate for the party. It all begins to make sense. Selecting delegates: Delegates were selected in very odd ways.  Coming into the building people were handing out flyers with thier resumes of why they should be selected as delegates.  People were expecting to give little speeches, and be voted on.  Instead other methods were used. In my group we started with the fact we could select a total of 32 delegates and alternates, to represent our canidate at the next level, and there were 28 of us. A quote from the process "okay now we need 16 delegates, and there are 19 of you, would three people step aside? you can be alternates you know. Okay thats 1 we need 2 more to step down, come on ...." In other groups they simply put all the names of interested parties into a hat and drew randomly.  Some groups actually listened to speeches.  Anyway with just a little determination I am going to both of the next 2 events, as an alternate to one and a delegate to the other.  If the selection process is as random, I will bring dice, and perhaps my chance to go to the national convention will rest on a d20 <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />** contested office [sblock] One of the contested races was due to fact that you had to submit a letter of intent to run for office 10 days before caucus.  In one voting cycle someone moved to suspend the rules so that another person could compete.  It was seconded but not passed.  Had it passed we could have chaged the party nominee (for state senator), more or less on a whim. [/sblock] Truely, Caucus democracy in action.</blockquote>

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