My plan to revise the primary system.

[Funtatlaguy]

No Caucuses
Five primaries held every 2 weeks representing different parts of country.
I would prefer having these every second Tuesday or every second Saturday.

E.g.
Start the first Tuesday in February with Iowa, N.H., S.C., Nevada, Montana.
If the Iowa and New Hampshire people freak out, let them go first on Tuesday and the other three then go on the following Saturday.
Then 2 Tuesday's later, 5 more states from different regions.....and, so on...and so on.
After 20 weeks, all 50 states would have voted.
2 weeks later, all U.S. Territories and D.C. vote.

All states should use the Presidential primary dates as the same date for their state and local primary election contests. This would drive up voter turnout and save the states from having to have multiple elections.

[Funtatlaguy]

1. Self bumping....to get some other

Ideas on changing the primary system to be more efficient.

[FSogol]

2. Your plan is foolish. It allows for a DNC takeover of the entire process.

Currently each state makes a decision such as open or closed; primary or caucus; date etc.

Even though I hate caucuses, it is up to each state to decide. I live in a state where we do not declare a party when we register, but have no problem with limiting the selection of Democratic candidates to Democrats.

The only reform needed is to add some standards to how early must you register, can 17 years old register and vote in primaries if they'll be 18 for the GE, etc.

[Joob]

3. I'm torn between liking Caucuses and Not. I've only voted once and it was at one.

I liked how we could have an open discussion and make cases for our candidate if someone was undecided still and just being around people happy to vote regardless of who it was for. I like that we got to choose delegates from within our own districts and it was decided by voting. ( extra voting! ) It seemed very democratic and I loved it! Seeing people who rose up and spoke for their candidate the best is how we chose ours.

However, if a candidate didn't have enough votes then they could get all the delegates and that makes sense in a way, because we're representing a district but it felt like maybe the people with less votes for their candidate left with nothing.

However, in a way I see that as a small little election and encourages more voters to show up.
No one left angry or sad everyone enjoyed it and was happy. I made a friend that was supporting Hillary.
I guess I still got some questions about it.

Like

1: How do other states choose delegates? I heard of some way and know it's different, how is that more democratic

2. Did all the votes really count or is that just another way to choose delegates? Because if you think about it.. I saw online people choosing delegates on a paper for Bernie or Hillary. Wouldn't the ones with the most votes still win except no meet and greets? Like I did?

(though I'm pretty sure the delegates from my district and WA in general have three phases)

^ Is that the part where it gets weird? I've tried researching this...

[Funtatlaguy]

4. Caucuses violate the "secret ballot" provision

that we all should be allowed to have.
It's often very difficult for an employee to vote differently than their boss when they are both voting at the same caucus and have to vote publicly.