Democratic caucus-goers in Northern Nevada are reporting a wide range of problems from long lines and cards not being counted to being turned away and too few paper ballots. Michael and Diana Jones were turned away from participating this morning in the caucus in Gardnerville despite being registered Democratic voters in Douglas County. This is because they registered as “confidential voters,” meaning their names are not available as a public record to the Democratic Party, which runs the caucuses. Michael Jones said he talked to multiple volunteers and Democratic Party staff who were unfamiliar with the issue until he was finally turned away. “I was told I had to reregister (not confidential),” he said. “The whole point is not to put up with the 30, 40, 50 robocalls and three pounds of campaign literature in the mailbox.” He said his wife spoke with someone in line who was a confidential voter but planned to reregister so he could participate.
Antoinette Jacobs discovered the problem with being a confidential voter at Shaw Middle School in Reno. She ended up reregistering so she could participate. “We are now inconvenienced by this registration fiasco since we have to go down to the county clerk’s office and redo it to add the confidential aspect so we can keep our information private,” she texted.
Jones is not willing to give up the confidentiality. “We’ve gotten virtually no robocalls and very little campaign literature,” he said.
He pointed out that Democrats can do same-day registration and so its party’s confidential voters have an option to participate, but unless confidential Republican voters have already reregistered, they have no way to caucus now because the GOP requires registering about a week before caucus day.
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