If you like Iowa's crazy caucus rules, you would love Texas. As you know, the Texas primary is Tuesday.
Texas uses a dual primary voting booth and caucus system. To attend a caucus you must have voted earlier in the day.
Then, the system awards delegates based on a
region's voter turnout history.
The (Fort Worth, Texas) Star-Telegram explains the system:
After polls close March 4, interested Republicans and Democrats will
return to their voting precincts to begin precinct conventions.
Republicans will choose the people they send to the next step, which is the March 29 senatorial district conventions.
The story continues:
As a result, Democrats who show up at the polls election night for
precinct conventions will be choosing which delegates move forward to
senatorial conventions.
But they'll also be choosing which
presidential candidate those delegates will be voting for, based on
turnout in support for each candidate.
When people first show up, they'll sign in, listing their name and presidential preference.
If
a precinct has 10 delegates and 50 people show up -- with 30 for
Clinton and 20 for Barack Obama -- then six delegates for Clinton and
four for Obama will move on to the senatorial convention.
Fox News explains:
Under Texas rules, the delegates in 31 state Senate districts are
distributed on March 4 using a formula based on past voter turnout --
areas like Houston, Dallas and Austin, for instance, get more delegates
because of higher voter turnout in past elections.
