re: #59 Anymouse

Faithless electors are very rare in American politics, that said, could not Washington add a jail sentence for that?

It’s the caucus system that’s the fucking problem. The National Party needs to use their muscle and tell every State Party that it’s primary elections only from here on out, any delegates awarded via caucus results will have no voting power at the National Convention. They should also only allow electors from the slate chosen by the campaign that wins nationally, when in doubt pre-elect multiple slates and finalize at the convention.

This is happening now because Sanders campaign was so strongly infiltrated by non-Democrats with zero party loyalty, and Sanders unfortunately encouraged it with his horrid choice in surrogates like Cornel West and Susan Sarandon. Sanders’ fueled this with his deliberate vagueness surrounding whether he was a Democrat or not. His strategy also hurt his primary chances in many states by not actively encouraging his followers to join the Party and by stoking unreasonable resentments against it as he lost. Washington State is probably the worst example of how this has all backfired horribly in the long run and it’s definitely on Sanders to do everything he can to un-fuck the situation.