When my wife and I went to our precinct (330 in West Lake Hills at Valley View Elementary School), we were told by an election official to return at 7:00 p.m. for our caucus.
We made it back around 7:10, and spent the next 15 minutes trying to get into the parking lot to find a spot.
There were already several hundred people standing around outside the tiny gymnasium waiting for the later voters to finish voting and for the caucus to start.
There was nobody outside giving any information, but someone mentioned to us that the Republican caucus wasn’t slated to start until after the Democratic caucus.
My wife shoved her way to the front door of the gym and found an election official who told my wife that the Republican caucus wouldn’t start until an hour after the Dem caucus, or until the Dems had all signed in.
In other words, it would be hours before we might get to caucus.
So we left. Bunch of bullshit idiots running our caucus site. It was specifically designed to exclude and dissuade Republicans from being able to caucus.
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Republicans don’t caucus in Texas.
Yeah, Jim, that’s what I thought, too.
The Republican Caucus ticket that I was handed when I voted in the primary begs to differ.
The GOP system doesn’t allot any presidential delegates through the caucus system, unlike the Democrats, but the Republicans still caucus to elect county party officials.
Which is what we were there to do. And what we were disenfranchised from doing by the Democratic caucus officials at our precinct.
You should file a complaint with the Election Board just for GP.
[Editor --- I'm considering it. However, it sounds like Hillary's campaign has much, much better grounds for a complaint (and possible lawsuit). Obamamaniacs are a bunch of kool-aid drinking fanatics.
Nobody who has witnessed Obamania! should be surprised by this. It's a true mob-mentality when they start gathering en mass.]< ./font>
Robbie, that must be a Travis County procedure, as I chatted with my precinct reps for several minutes when I went in to vote, and no mention of a caucus was made, and no documents were on the table, other than ballots, or were any offered to me.
I assumed it was done this way in all Texas counties.
Precinct conventions select delegates to the county conventions, which select delegates to the state conventions, which then select delegates to the national conventions.
Because of my precinct’s shenanigans, I have no chance of being selected to either the state or national convention.
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How does your precinct decide who gets to go to the state convention?
It’s called participatory democracy. Smarter people than you woke up earlier and already got that worm. Get educated, get involved, change the system. Whining gets you squat.