I'm glad that Washington State offers this for their caucuses

[book_worm]

Not everyone has Saturdays free, for various reasons, but Washington state supporters of Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders can rest easy knowing they can still cast a vote even if they can’t attend the March 26 caucuses.

Anyone who can’t attend due to religious observance, military service, work schedule, disability or illness can fill out a surrogate affidavit form with the Washington State Democratic Party and have their vote counted. If you can't make it for another reason, too bad.

The form is due tomorrow, Friday, March 18 by 5 p.m., so don't delay.

People need to be 18 by Election Day, Nov. 8, and consider themselves Democrats.

http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/spincontrol/2016/mar/17/cant-attend-washingtons-democratic-caucuses-fill-out-form/

I wonder if the Clinton campaign made a big effort to get people to fill out these forms? I can see lots of potential voters for HRC from people who work all the way to elderly people in nursing homes who would have a hard time attending a caucus.

[LisaM]

1. Wait'll the people in Montlake Terrace go to their caucus

and discover that it's happening at the same time as an Easter Egg hunt.

[MFM008]

2. i didnt hear of that option

until last thursday night.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Unfortunately that's a week ago

I'm in Snohomish County which is heavily Boeing so I don't think I'll have to deal with any obnoxious Bernie bro at my caucus.

[SunSeeker]

7. Yup, anyone who works at Boeing should be pretty disgusted with Bernie.

Those are all great jobs, which Bernie tried to torpedo with his vote against the Export-Import Bank that Boeing depends on to make passenger plane sales overseas. And he was such a hypocrite to call it "corporate welfare" at the debate, when he defends the worst corporate welfare there is: trillions to the MIC for that F-35 boondoggle -- all so he could keep a few thousand F-35 jobs in Vermont.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/24583-bernie-sanders-doubles-down-on-f-35-support-days-after-runway-explosion

[Loki]

4. Imagine that.

Democrats helping people vote.

[ismnotwasm]

5. I'm in a poor to low to middle working class neighborhood

Thus, I'm hoping to avoid too many Sanders supporters. My husband and I think we have a good shot at it.

[SharonClark]

6. Interesting list

So in WA there are exceptions for some people to submit surrogate affidavits. It sounds like a caucus with some primary-like options but that doesn't seem fair either to people who do not know ahead of time that they can't attend or people on vacation. I really dislike the caucus system and I live in Iowa and have attended every presidential caucus since I was 18. It just keeps getting worse.