Texan Voters

Hello Lancingboy, I believe that Texas is unique in the exact way they are primarying & caucusing. I must withold judgement about 'how they elect' their candidates because I have not read the Texas Constitutional 'Election Law' statutes. Where it may be difficult to understand why something is the way it is, there are ususally good reasons. For example: in my state, both the Dem & GOP primaries are historically held in June. This year the Dem State Party wanted to play a bigger role in choosing the nominee, so they bumped up their primary to a 'caucus', which was held concurrently with many other states on "Super Tuesday". What a debaucle that was. It took the Dem State Party two weeks to count 1700 ballots, and there are so many allegations of fraud. It was a huge embarrasment for the State, because the Dem party was ill-prepared to deal with the ramifications of moving up the nominating process. Anyway, our state typically keeps its primaries in June because our State Assembly meets in March, and there is often times a 'special session' called in order to deal with bills that were not passed during the regular session. When a special session is called, it is usually in April or May. In all reality, neither party is ready to undertake primaries or caucuses so close to our legislative term. I share this only to explain that although many voters, in both parties, petitioned our state parties to change the primary procedures, i.e. to move up the nomination procedure: that doing so placed a huge burden on the parties, the legislature, the county clerks, the Secretary of State, etc... In other words, there are usually good reasons why laws are the law. It usually only takes reading the laws to figure out why they are the way they are. Of course, there are always exceptions, e.g. stupid laws, like not being able to walk your pet elephant on certain sides of the street in San Francisco. Though, for the most part electoral procedure laws generally have a historical reason for being as they are. As for voting twice: Well, the Iowa Caucus allows every voter to vote as many times as it takes for a clear victor to emerge. This is not unusual in state caucuses.