Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Joe Biden's Absence Looms Over California Campaign Events [View all]still_one
(92,187 posts)their membership.
A perfect example of this was when they endorsed Kevin de Leon for Senator over Dianne Feinstein.
"Dianne Feinstein won reelection by an overwhelming majority in that race.
This proved the state party organization comes nowhere near representing the partys membership.
This begs the question why is that, and it goes to how they select their delegates for the next party convention.
They have caucuses in all California Assembly districts where they choose 14 delegates per district for the next convention, the one we are seeing now.
The problem was, the party didn't notify most of the Democrats of the vote that was to take place, and there was no notice on the party website. Most who attended were informed by candidates or word of mouth, and they called this a Democratic process?
Those who did turn up for the caucuses, heard a few speeches, then waited in line to vote, and when they voted, no one verified where they lived, or whether they had already voted.
They used a hand stamp as there verification, but not everyone received that hand stamp. It was somewhat of an "honor" system, where anyone could vote, citizen or not, district resident or not, Democrat or not, multiple times.
The check was through a laptop computer per caucus, used to verify ID through a voter DB, but only if someone challenged the legitimacy of a would be voter.
and determining who won these delegate elections was a mess. The party created two gender categories: "self-identified female" and "male/other than self-identified female" Voters could mark seven in each category, but no matter who got the most votes, the top seven of each would become delegates. So if 14 self-identified other-than-females got more votes than the leading female, seven would be knocked out.
This is democracy?"
https://www.redding.com/story/opinion/columnists/tom-elias/2019/04/08/california-democrats-art-they-really-democratic/2916017002/
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden