41st LD Caucus

[Mandolius]

I went as a delegate, but had to leave early. I was able to stay until the second Credential Report. After I got home from work I added up the delegate totals and found a discrepancy of 14 between the two reports. I might've written them down incorrectly, but I doubt it. They readily gave the totals, then the percentages for the first, but were very reluctant to give the totals AFTER giving the percentages for the second. It seemed a bit strange at the time, downright suspicious after I found the discrepancy.

If anyone here has any information about this, as well as anything else about the caucus and the resolutions that were voted on, please reply.

Thanks!

[Mandolius]

1. Update

I emailed the moderator for Washington Delegates for Dean, Chad Shue, about the discrepancy and this was his reply:

"The only explainations that I can come up with about the difference in total delegate count are:

1) Most caucuses allowed for late sign in so there may have been additional names added between the counts, or

2) Some initially contested delegates/alternates were found to be valid (the job of the credentials committee).

I guess it could have been plain bad math too but I would be more prone to believe one of the above."

At the beginning of the caucus they mentioned that no delegates were challenged, so it was either late sign in, bad math or something else. Hopefully the process will be less sloppy and more transparent in the future.

Chad is compiling a spreadsheet of the stats for all the LD Caucuses. He needs the Delegate names and totals, and the Congressional District they being sent to. Anyone from any LD that has any Delegate information should email him directly at:

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He'd be happy to receive the info and he'll probably be able to tell you how to get a copy of the spreadsheet, when it's done.