Super Tuesday: Caucuses Don't Work
Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008 — 9:45 a.m.
Not to say, “I told you so,” but, well, I kinda told you so. Last week when we asked the Good Question, “Why Do We Caucus?”, we pointed out many of the flaws with the caucus system. Today, many people are talking about the need to get a primary started in Minnesota, including the Star Tribune editorial page.
Last night, my wife and I were at the Town Talk Diner in Minneapolis, and a guy came in who was turned away from voting because he showed up at 8:04 p.m. On our news last night, I saw pictures of traffic jams and heard of voters who couldn’t vote because there were too many people in line. At some precincts, they ran out of ballots, and people voted using torn off pieces of paper.
That’s plain nutty. Hopefully the parties and the legislators can get together and find a better way to vote, where everyone who wants to cast a ballot is allowed to cast a ballot.
(from deblog)