Reply #174: That's called a primary. Very similar to how some firehouse primaries are.

[joshcryer]

I don't like the ability to campaign at the polls. It allows for people to coerce you into changing your mind at the last minute. Hell, you could go walking to the polls with no knowledge of the other candidate, and once you get there be convinced to vote for the other one just because everyone else is. That's now how democracy is supposed to work.

But that's how many caucuses are.

I know if I was outnumbered 10-15 to 1 I would join the "winning side" if I wasn't politically aware.