What was your caucus result?

[ButterflyBlood]

Obama - 411
Clinton - 53
Kucinich - 6
Edwards - 2
Uncommitted - 1

Yeah, I was thrilled!

[Demrock6]

1. 2 to 1 Obama

I though I would be in Clinton area "CD6" Wright County.

[qb]

2. Obama 428, Clinton 193, Kucinich 2, Edwards 1

[electron_blue]

3. Do you know how I can find out what our caucus result is?

Do you have a link for the results?

[Minnesota Raindog]

4. SoS link to caucus results

http://caucusresults.sos.state.mn.us/Default.aspx?ElectionID=1

[suegeo]

5. The meeting was unorganized.

I have no idea what the vote counts were. If I were the rigging kind, it would have been child's play to stuff the ballot envelope with little purple pieces of paper. The biggest hurdle to rigging would have been finding parking and the precinct's meeting room.

[indigo32]

10. They do have to match the numbers

to how many signed in. We actually had 2 fewer ballots to the number signed in at the end.

[electron_blue]

11. So does that mean if I didn't sign in that my vote was discounted?

There was a signup sheet and I asked the man handing out ballots did I need to sign in? He said no that was just for people staying for the caucus. Not those "just voting" and leaving.

I always sign in when voting in regular elections. I didn't like that I didn't sign in yesterday. They did ask for my driver's license to prove that I lived there. Lucky thing I had it with me. Is voter id now required in Minnesota?

[dflprincess]

14. You should have signed in

but you should not have been asked for ID. Minnesota does not require id be show at the polls on election day - unless you are registering to vote - and the DFL does not require that ID be shown at the caucuses. It's okay to verify that someone is in the right precinct by asking their address (we had to do this last night with a lot of people who didn't know their precinct or polling place) but we just take their word for it.

Also, keep in mind that this wasn't an election, it was a caucus and is considered party business. That's why you'll find some of the rules are different between the DFL and Republicans. For example the balloting that was done last night in the DFL caucuses will affect how the national delegates from Minnesota are allocated for the Denver convention - at the Republican caucuses, a straw poll was taken but will I did hear it will not bind their national delegates.

[electron_blue]

15. Yeah, I'm still learning all this.

However he would not give me a ballot til I produced the d.l. I couldn't find it at first and just told him my address and pointed on the map where I lived. He said he needed to see proof that I lived there.

Most people in the room with me did not sign in, for whatever that is worth.

I understand it wasn't an election, but... what was the point of me showing up and stating a preference? Was that tallied at all? Or did only the members who stayed the whole time get to have a say in what preference was stated?

[dflprincess]

16. I'm not sure what happens if the sign in sheets didn't match the ballot tallies

but, assuming your vote was counted, it will help decide how many delegates your candidate takes to the National Convention - and that matters. You did not have to stay for the whole caucus for your vote to be counted - you could toss your vote in and leave. It looks to me that some of the districts didn't bother to properly train their caucus conveners and the state office should hear about that.

If you feel like it, call the DFL office www.dfl.org) and let them know what kind of problems you had. The party tried to set things up to increase and encourage participation and to try to make it easier to participate (I don't think anyone expected the turnout we had, a couple days ago my Mom said she heard that the DFL was expecting around 80,000 at the caucus. Underestimating turnout did lead to some of the problems.). The state office should hear about what went wrong so they can fix some of those problems for the future.

[suegeo]

20. Sign in sheets provided no check.

The security check provided by the sign in sheets was the equivalent of the security provided by Herr Doctor Rice, the NSC chief in the many many months leading up to “September the 11th (TM)

To wit:

The DFL placed 2 (two!!) precincts into a classroom that seated 40 people. A room that didn’t hold all the people who wanted to vote and participate by a factor of 10.

At about 7:15, they circulated about 4 or 5 sign in sheets to us rubes standing in the hall. It would have been easy to sign in as often as I wanted, using any # of aliases and fake addresses. And then to stuff the ballot envelope with votes for whatever candidate that some corporate jackass from 3-M, United health, or General Mills paid me to vote for.

Further, since I’ve attended caucus before, someone from inside the room shouted that I could use a different special sheet to sign in, bypassing the run-of-the-mill-rube-in-the-hall sheets.

Plus, it was like shark feeding time at the MOA there. I doubt that all the people who voted signed in. There is no way the vote total matched the sign in sheet numbers.

But I can’t say for sure because I left at about 8:30, after someone read the Equal opportunity statement to launch our glorius meeting. People who would have been delegates to further vote for congressional candidates left in disgust. It was a shame because now we won't have enough delegates to fill out our allotted share.

I left wishing I had never shown up and skipped the hassle factor. I am not sure my vote even counted. And I think a more effective way to influence the world around me would be to regularly throw dead rats on the white house lawn.

[RL3AO]

6. Red Wing

O- 329
C- 241
E- 3
U- 1

My ward was 29-26 for Hillary.
We voted on post-it notes because we ran out of paper.

[geardaddy]

7. SD 60 W10 P6

435 - Obama
106 - Clinton
1 - Edwards

and a spoiled ballot for McCain :rofl:

[dflprincess]

8. SD 40, which is split between Bloomington & Burnville

I don't remember the exact counts, but we had a total of 3,028 votes cast (and we were thrilled with the 2004 turnout when I think we had around 800). Obama had 19xx and Clinton had 1,0xx, the rest were split between various no longer running candidates and uncommitted.

A lot of people stayed for the caucus so maybe we'll have some more activists in the two 'burbs.

The one bad thing: Someone else was convening my precinct and I had promised myself that this year I was going to go my caucus just as a participant and enjoy it. I got to the school at 6 and there already was a crowd so I wound up spending the evening in the lobby helping people find the room they were suppose to go to - a bit complicated as another SD that also has precincts in Bloomington was in the same school. I got to my caucus only long enough to sign in, vote and give the convenor a not to let him know I wanted to be a delegate to the Senate District convention (I am) and then I went back to the lobby.

I just love the voters though. I understand if someone doesn't know their precinct number, but they ought to know where they vote (if they've voted before and haven't moved). I got a real bang out of the ones who, when I asked where they normally vote is, would respond "At that Lutheran Church" (this isn't Lake Woebegon, we have more than one) or "At that school by my house".

Mostly people were patient some got a little pushy and tried to butt in while I was helping someone elst. We only had one woman who took off on us for being disorganized and told us it was clusterfuck. She did herself in though, when she asked how we could "work here" and not know what we're doing. In unison the other person I was with & I shrieked "We're volunteers - do you want to take over for us?" Apparently she thought the school was putting this on. And, really, we weren't disorganized, we just badly "misunderestimated" how many people would show up. In 2004 we had around 800, who knew we'd more than triple that?

[SnowCritter]

9. Obama took my precinct (SD15 - W3 - P8)

Obama - 52
Clinton - 24
Edwards - 1 (Me)

[wellstone dem]

21. senate district 15 w4 p4 (St. Cloud)

Obama--23
Clinton 4
uncommitted 2

[lojasmo]

12. Obama 1400, Clinton 650. EOM

[LaraMN]

13. I can't remember the raw numbers,

but Obama took about 57%, Clinton about 42%, and there were one vote each for Richardson, McCain, and Ron Paul. :crazy:
Our turnout seemed to be about ten times that of the midterm caucus.

[kenfrequed]

17. uhm

about 2 to 1 obama I think

Though I really wasn't all that interested in that aspect. Too busy setting up to be a delegate for Jack Paulmeyer

[SomeGuyInEagan]

18. SD 38 P10 (Eagan)

SD 38

Biden 1
Clinton 996
Dodd 0
Edwards 7
Kucinich 4
Lynch 0
Obama 2038
Richardson 1
Uncommitted 8

P10

Biden 0
Clinton 47
Dodd 0
Edwards 0
Kucinich 0
Lynch 0
Obama 63
Richardson 0
Uncommitted 0

source: http://caucusresults.sos.state.mn.us/PrefBallotCrossTab.aspx?ElectionID=1&PartyID=1&DistrictID=3122&ID=10

[Fox Mulder]

19. Here:

Clinton: 39
Obama: 23
Edwards: 3

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

22. SD 61, 8-06

127/389 Obama.

[question everything]

23. Obama 60, Clinton 50

Four years ago we had a total of 24 votes...

[DFLforever]

24. St Paul SD 64: 3-14

Obama - 176
Clinton - 67

[Mnpaul]

25. They didn't count my vote

I voted for Edwards and there are no votes for Edwards in my precinct. I guess they won't get my vote come November either.

[Blue Fire]

26. Can't remember the totals here in Lakeview Township, Becker County,

but Obama won handily.
And considering this was my very first caucus, I have a question. Just how the hell did I end up becoming a delegate and co-chair of the Lakeview democrats? I don't really remember.........:shrug:

[crweber]

27. Results

50 Obama 60 Clinton