2016 Postmortem
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This is the first primary season that I have actively followed and I have to say, I am shocked about how chaotic it is.
I have voted in many elections in Germany. I have never experienced any of the following:
- Waiting in line for hours to vote.
- Voting on a weekday.
- Crazy screw-ups in the registration records.
- Super delegates with the power to overturn the popular vote.
- Coin tosses.
- Running out of ballots.
- Candidates being pressured into giving up after half of the country hasn't even voted yet.
- The utter clusterfuck that is known as "caucuses".
- People being unable to vote because they failed to announce their will to do so a month prior.
- A general sense of chaos and lack of transparency.
About the only thing that could make the Democratic primaries worse would be a winner takes it all rule. Holy crap...
To be clear: This is not about one candidate or the other. Just some general observations.
mmonk
(52,589 posts)many people were disenfranchised. Still are.
farleftlib
(2,125 posts)for the voters and one that is very vulnerable to suppression and fraud. I think the only thing you missed was the bogus voter ID laws they've implemented recently.
See the election of 2000 for worst case scenario. And I believe things have gotten worse since then.
JEB
(4,748 posts)Clean this fucking mess up. It is no wonder folks don't bother voting. Here in Oregon we have vote by mail which seems to work well.