I'm in Colorado. I was the caucus captain. None of our Bernie delegates wound up on the list [View all]

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for the County Convention tomorrow, meaning MY name was also left off.

In our precinct, it went 4 for Bernie Sanders, 3 for Hillary Clinton.

But there ARE seven names for our precinct on that list.

All seven of them are for Hillary. Before I fly off, a reasonable explantion is that it was a clerical thing - where the Hillary alternates were entered in as delegates instead of alternates. Except that would equal six, not seven.

Or I am talking myself off the ceiling with that logic and benefit of the doubt anyway.

(Seven are for Hillary? How do I know this? Because I go to the District breakfasts sometimes, because I recognize some names, one of them is our PCP, one is our chair, etc. AND because I snooped a bit on Facebook).

I hope that the Hillary supporters understand just WHY we are all so suspicious of cheating.

I really, sincerely try to NOT leap to conclusions.

Even so, I am a very practical person and can see with the Colorado process (way too many races on caucus night, all of them needing delegates and alternates, a lot of people passing sheets to write their name and contact info, some for CD1, some for regent, some for assembly, some for presidential delegate) - that this could easily some kind of major clerical error. (Because frankly, the young man who ran our caucus was in over his head.)

But the issue I take is that is NOT EASY to correct the error.

The Bernie campaign has no standing to argue, so the four of us will have to argue to be seated tomorrow in front of a Credential Committee. One good thing is that as far as the Bernie organizer could tell -- from his list that Bernie has the correct TOTAL number of delegates in our county (for the numbers tomorrow), so he wasn't too concerned because mine was the first he had heard of people's names not being on the delegate/alternate list. He said that it just seems on a precinct by precinct level, the numbers are wrong with the overall total being correct. But with everything going on, what if he's wrong? I will be spitting mad tomorrow if a whole bunch of people are being told their name is not on the list.

The reply we got back from Denver Democrats was terse and basically said that the delegates were the names completed on the DPOD form (whatever that is) so that is who will be seated. And that we could take it up tomorrow with the Credential Committee. Sounds like a fun time will be had by all in that committee room, I'll tell ya!

I sent in some very convincing evidence (I had our delegates and alternates write a list and contact info in their own handwriting on a second sheet for the Bernie campaign in case they asked) so I do have something from the night of the caucus.

AND a couple of people in the precinct and the district know me, but I am still all riled up. I just have a fear that we will not be heard, or that the session for the next level of delegates will happen while we are still in another room trying to get seated. Ugh.

I have also written a note to the district chair (who is over our precinct) for her to assist us with arguing to be seated tomorrow, but she has not read it yet (no read receipt).

I realize that 4 delegates out of several hundreds (or whatever) doesn't mean much statistically even, but I still feel like I volunteered and want to be seated and wanted to run for delegate to go to the state convention. Yuk. I feel yucky.

I deeply apologize to POC reading this and to young college students for not working more passionately for voting rights in the past. Talk about learning a lesson about how it FEELS to think you may be disenfranchised.