Did you ever sit in
on or see the process of caucuses voting?
I’m from New England
with family and/or committee meeting elders in each of the New England States.
My state does not
have caucuses voting, however many of the New England states of my family and
friends do!
I have seen my share
of caucuses voting and to this day I cannot believe that it has not been
outlawed!
I would sit at a
table and watch someone wanting to vote his or her right by not
raising a hand during a vote, while 5 or 6 giant goons that did raise their
hands surrounded the table!
Once in one of the
three states, even I with a visitor name tag, was harassed
(scary as heck)!
Federal law doesn't
dictate how states choose their delegates, so individual states decide what
system to use.
Most states use the
primary system where voters statewide simply cast a vote for the candidate they
support,
but some use the older caucus system.
The term caucus
apparently comes from an Algonquin word meaning "gathering of tribal
chiefs," and the main crux of the caucus system today is indeed a series
of meetings.
To see how this works, let's look at the Iowa caucuses -- the
first "voting event" of the presidential election year.
I personally have
not heard of this "Algonquin meaning, gathering of tribal chiefs" and
I have traveled to all of the New England States, New York and New Jersey
hundreds of times with my family and friends?
One might guess if
the need was to came around that it was time for choosing new chiefs?
My Algonquin people
are of a Matriarch people, so this following link would apply to picking
'chiefs'
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