The end of the line. The photographer has asked that it be made clear that the man pictured was instructed to hold this sign.

By now it is pretty big news that the Clark County convention flipped in favor of Sanders despite a 10% win for Clinton at the caucuses. It is now coming out that a series of events that could only have happened due to the caucus system may have played an important role in this remarkable flip.

The story begins with the removal today of Christine Kramar as credentials chief. Kramar had been accused of leaking confidential information to the Sanders campaign and was removed at the request of the Clinton campaign.

The story continues with an error on an email that was sent to delegates. This email instructed some delegates that it was unnecessary to show up on April 2nd if they registered on the 1st.

Finally, this morning. As you can see in the email, registration this morning was cut off at 12 p.m. Unfortunately, at noon all delegates including some that had already registered were prevented from entering the convention due to confusion about the rules and many left (pictured above was the cutoff). After some time, those elected delegates who had already registered that did not leave were allowed to enter and vote.

These three events resulted in a number of elected delegates from both sides failing to show and hundreds of alternates being seated as delegates. Due to a greater number of alternates on the Sanders side this resulted in the flip.

I do not believe that there was any foul play by any campaign, but this illustrates the problem the caucus system presents to democratically electing a candidate and the problem with volunteers running the convention. I strongly hope that events like this will encourage the party to transition to all primaries in the future.

(Thanks to Mr. Blitch for letting me use his picture and sharing his view of events as they unfolded!)