Reply #31: Yes, the caucus system sucks, in general [View All]

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If you cannot be at a specific time at a specific place, you are being disenfranchised. If you have to be out of town, have to work - second or third job - are ill, or your kids are ill, or just give up in disgust when you drive around the blocks and cannot find a place to park - as happened in Minnesota, at least, in the Twin Cities Metro area - you are disenfranchised.

Sure, employers are expected to give workers time off to vote and this works when it is a whole day affair as in the general elections or with a primary system. But do we expect all police officers and hospital emergency personnel to just go off their jobs to participate in the caucus?

At least, in Minnesota, all one had to do, and many did, was to come and write a name on a post-it note (really) and then leave. But in places like Iowa, and perhaps others, you had to stay the whole several hours until your vote was counted.