One Reason NV GOP turnout was low

[HenryKnoxFineBooks]

Seems people are quick to denounce our 94 vote increase in 2012 over 2008, and even quicker to conjecture reasons rather than investigate a bit. This is definitely a contributing factor:

It didn’t help matters that, due to redistricting, the county clerks in Clark and Washoe counties — the population hubs where Las Vegas and Reno are located — renumbered all of the local precincts last month. So voters in the state’s two largest cities were confused about where to caucus.

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[Maltheus]

The same is true in Colorado. They only just finished changing everyone's precinct last month and those changes are substantial.

[RonPaul101.com]

The same is true in Colorado. They only just finished changing everyone's precinct last month and those changes are substantial.

Hopefully the campaign gets the word out to any/all indentified voters.

[wgadget]

Groan...The fact that they closed the doors at exactly 9am probably didn't help, either.

[pipewerKz]

Groan...The fact that they closed the doors at exactly 9am probably didn't help, either.

They didn't close the doors at 9am at my site, not sure why it would be different anywhere else. The problem was the party advertised that the caucus would go on from 9am-1pm. Saying that the "meeting" starts at 9am confused people and they figured "I don't need to go to the meeting, I'll go later and just vote."

Doors opened at 8am. Meetings started at 9am and precinct captains (following a script in the packet) are supposed to wait until 9:30 for everyone to show up, then the delegate process starts, followed by the preference poll.

I was confused about the workings of the process but getting there took a few minutes of searching to figure out. It should have effected the older vote the most with the precinct changes and all.

[Maltheus]

Hopefully the campaign gets the word out to any/all indentified voters.

The problem is that the campaign hasn't caught up to the changes because they are so recent. They want people two know both of their precinct numbers so they can use the new one for the caucus and the old one for votertracker. There was no real effort made to hook people up in the same precinct because of this. Part of me fears that we'll actually end up doing worse here than we did in '08 for a number of reasons.

[swissaustrian]

This plus the schedules for the caucuses at 9 am.

[phill4paul]

We might see the same in N.C.

[pipewerKz]

Blah, my first caucus and I managed to get it straight. Knowing what to do was another story but getting there shouldn't have taken anyone that tried about 10 minutes the day before.

[craezie]

i think the problem is with people who were NOT going for the first time. We ALWAYS voted at this one fire station, then last year we showed up and weren't on the list -- turns out we were redistricted to a school down the street.