2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Tonight I witnessed a shameful display of voter supression in Minnesota. [View all]Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)I never once complained about "procedures designed to increase participation" I complained about procedures designed to decrease participation. Because that is exactly what these caucuses do, they make it difficult to vote and decrease participation. Packing huge numbers of people into a single site may bring a lot of people to that one site, but there would be far more people participating if every precinct had a place where people could go to vote. The caucus system is extremely undemocratic, by advocating for a caucus system you are the one advocating for decreased participation not me.
I have been an activist for the past fifteen years and I have volunteered for many things, but I sure as hell am not going to volunteer for any caucuses as the caucus system is completely undemocratic and I am not going to volunteer my time to prop up an undemocratic system.