Congressional Black Caucus opposed to Sanders’ proposed “transformation” of Dem Party

[moonshaz]

The CBC is prepared to battle Sanders over superdelegates and opening primaries and caucues to independent votersNearly one week ago [Tues., 6/14], Bernie Sanders stood in front of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C. and demanded a “fundamental transformation of the Democratic Party,” calling for significant changes

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[trivalent]

IDK about all open systems, but the ones I've known of, you can still only vote in one primary. So... you can vote in the Republican primary OR the Democratic primary, not both. And that means people have to choose what matters more to them. And I'm... okay with that?

But definitely the deadlines in some places and how it goes down can be ridiculous.

[vvalkyri]

I knew a lot of dems in va who voted in the GOP primary in order to try to choose the weaker candidate. And WV's exit polls showed that a lot of those voting for Bernie planned to vote for trump in the general. So that's one of the issues.

Some states allow first registration on the day of, but changes have to be earlier. California's GOP primary was closed and the Dem primary open to non affiliated but not those who were already reg'd something else.

[trivalent]

That is something you can do (choose to vote in the opposite party, not yours), but if it's just one vote per person (not both primaries) then... pwople can choose their priorities. Whether that's the weaker candidate or a lesser evil of the opposite party, etc.

There have been a lot of horror stories about registration. And THAT, no matter whatever else, needs to get changed.

[moonshaz]

So... you can vote in the Republican primary OR the Democratic primary, not both.

That's exactly how it works in IL. You just walk into the polling place, check in, and say, "I would like a Republican/Democratic/Green/etc. ballot."
It helps that we have all our primaries at the same time. I don't understand these states that have the Dem and Rep ones separately. Seems needlessly complicated to me.

[trivalent]

I've seen it where all the primaries are on one ballot, but if you vote in more than one, your vote is void. So it's just ONE ballot, do as you wish. You don't have to show you're registered as anything.

And yeah, it does require primaries be at the same time. But that should be doable~

[molkat]

Unless it's like this year where one party's primary was pretty much done a month earlier. If your party's candidate is locked in, why not skew the results of the other party?

[trivalent]

As someone said above, that style of open primary works by having the primaries on the same day. If you're a late state and one party is decided, you can still then vote in the other. But then at least your vote matters. I spent years living in a state where there'd only ever be one person left still running most of the time, for either party, so it was always like "..." when it actually became time to vote.