4chan user gets disenfranchised in CO

Coloradofag here. This is what I experienced. Went to caucus site at local high school. Place is packed very high turnout. I caucused for the democrats in 2008 and the turnout was huge then, and this was an equally high if not larger turnout. This is a large high school and almost every room was occupied on the main level of the school.

Found my caucus room. Sit down and am immediately asked to sign in, no credential check at all. There were around 10 people in my room, but passing by other classrooms I saw that most other rooms had many more people inside. Everyone is exchanging niceities and getting to know each other.

The business starts, precinct chairman is elected and it is the current precinct chair who has been running the precinct for the last couple decades. Him and his wife are clearly in charge and no one else there seems interested in challenging that. The chair and his wife and this one other guy in the room clearly know each other well; these are the local GOP insiders. I'll add an aside here: these three very quickly made it clear to everyone that they supported Cruz. The chairman was a very effimenate guy and throughout the meeting him and his wife talked about their personal lives in great detail; medical issues, jobs (man was a tax guy, wife a teacher) vacation plans all very girlishly. At no time did they mention kids and I got the distinct impression their home was filled with cats not grandkids.

Almost immediately the questions of "when do we vote" come flying in. During the lead up to the caucus I never heard anything in the media about the rule change in August, myself and every other non insider (in my room, the three people I mentioned) thought we were there to vote. The replies we received from the three insiders over and over again to the voting questions were variations on "oh, we CAN take a vote at the end, we have a lot of business to take care of tonight".


No one really understood until an hour in that there simply would not be a vote. 3 of us immediately and angrily left the Caucas. The rest sat in disbelief as it was explained to us that a rules change in the middle of the lead up nixed the voting. When asked why it was indicated at the beginning of the caucus that we "could vote" at the end the chairman his wife and the other insider smugly explained "well we can take an informal straw poll for us in he room. But it won't count or matter beyond that. Everybody except the three insiders were clearly upset and felt misled. I left angry, and unsure what had just happened.

This was a stolen vote people, we were simply disenfranchised. The only votes were cast by people who could pay the $100 asked for in cash then and there, go to a county caucus on a fucking Thursday afternoon, and travel an hour and a half to a small city in southern Colorado for the state convention. This was a good old fashion poll tax.