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Caucus 2020: Why should I? How do I? Who is running?

• February 19, 2020

I made a grievous mistake in my last post. When I originally sent the copy to the editor, I was under the impression that caucuses were going to be held the evening of the primary at 7 p.m., in the same way the preference ballot and caucuses had been on the same day in 2016. […]

By Phil Roeder from Des Moines, IA, USA - Precinct 61, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=58008907

How to Run a Ranked-Choice Caucus on the Cheap

• February 10, 2020

This is what we woke up to last Tuesday. It didn’t have to be this way. From media reports, it sounds like precinct chairs were downloading an untested app the night of the caucus and running into bugs and connectivity issues. When they tried to call in their results as they had four years ago, […]