Minnesotans: do you think it strange that we have BOTH

[KitchenWitch]

precinct caucuses and a Primary Election?

[Oeditpus Rex]

1. I was just reading Lara's thread

and I was like, "WTF is a precinct caucus and what are election judges?"

I live in Kollyforniya, see...

:shrug:

[KitchenWitch]

5. Election judges are basically clerical workers that work on election day

registering people to vote (we have same day registration), handing out ballots, etc.

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. Ah... poll clerks

I did that one year. Hell of a long day.

[KitchenWitch]

16. Yes, here it is like 6 am to 9 pm

polls open at 7 am and close at 8 pm.

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. Do you get paid?

The year I did it — must've been the mid-'80s — we got something like $6 per hour. I think I made around $70 that day.

The best part was when a guy from my graduating class who'd played varsity basketball came to vote and I reminded him of the time he gave me an 18-footer from the baseline in a pickup game and it was nothin'. but. net.

[KitchenWitch]

19. Yes they get paid, not sure how much.

[SaveElmer]

2. Minnesota has always been a bit strange politically...

BUt things usually work out ok. But, when they go bad, they really go bad (Rod Grams, Norm Coleman)!!!

[KitchenWitch]

3. Very true!

[WCGreen]

4. Minnesota also has dildo Wielding Lesbianics....

So it can't be all that bad....

[KitchenWitch]

6. Really? WHERE?????????

:rofl:

[WCGreen]

7. In Sheboken....

Or what ever that Prison Max for Women is....

[KitchenWitch]

10. Shakopee - GEEZ

[LaraMN]

8. We just can't enough of our politics, eh?

:shrug:

[KitchenWitch]

11. LOL

More like: the hacks just can't let anything go!

[WCGreen]

13. Who you callin' a hack....

[KitchenWitch]

14. all of us!

:rofl:

[WCGreen]

17. Hack away.....

Put a spell on me....

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. My dear KitchenWitch!

Glad to see you're back!

Out here, we just have primaries.....

We do have caucuses, but these are run by the party, and are for endorsement purposes, I think.......

:hi:

[KitchenWitch]

12. It was fun

First time in years that I have been to a caucus and I was pleasantly surprised that a former high muckity muck in the DFL party lives in my precinct. He is a wealth of information!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

20. We don't actually except for local offices

The caucuses are the only thing we do during presidential years, unless I missed something big in 2004.

The DFL is proposing getting rid of local primaries through instant runoff voting.

[KitchenWitch]

21. The person who convened our caucus mentioned something about that

but then he did not have the materials, so we went right into the resolutions.