I honestly do not know if I was seated as a delegate or not.

Perhaps we should call it the Washington 48th LD Circus instead. I cannot even find the words to describe the level of confusion and hysteria at today’s event — it was horrendous. Instead, I am just going to provide my raw notes that I dumped down as soon as I got home.

Doors opened at 1pm I registered as a Sanders alternate delegate for the 1st congressional district I was told to “sit up front on the left side” and I was not given a credentials slip When about 25% of people were seated, they announced many alternates had mistakenly been given credentials slips They added that Sanders delegates should have blue slips and Clinton delegates should have yellow After lots of uproar it was corrected that alternates should have blue slips and delegates should have yellow After more uproar it was corrected that 9th district delegates should have yellow and 1st district delegates should have blue It was added that 9th district delegates should be up from and 1st district should be in the back I moved to the back to join the other 1st district delegates Around 3:00pm, it was announced that alternate delegates should not be seated in the chairs and instead should be outside (out back) Around 4:00pm, alternate delegates sitting outside were told that delegates had been seated Alternates were told that if they weren’t running to be a delegate, they could go home Shortly thereafter, alternates running to be delegates were told they could reenter the building When I got to a position where I could hear what was going on, it was clear that the caucus chair was explaining the rules and the agenda He put forth a motion that he should be named the permanent chair without a vote He said if there weren’t any objections, we would move forward — but it was likely that no one else in attendance had studied the agenda or knew what to do Then he declared that there had been no objections and asked for a vote of all those in favor Some credentials slips went up and he called it final and moved on After a bit of confusing discussion, it started to become clear that many delegates in the 1st district (sitting in the back) could not hear anything being said (let alone the remaining alternates sitting ouside that had zero idea what was going on) By 4:35pm, motions were being put forth to suspend the rule about adjournment at 5:00pm A motion was put forth to move forward on that vote without discussion about it There were many people expressing confusion and objection to the motion The motions were approved and it was stated that we would not adjourn at 5pm and would instead adjourn automatically when the final credential count was announced Delegates from both sides got up, yelled, and stormed out of the caucus Questions were asked about how long we’d be there Questions were asked about how we’d vote on delegates if we were automatically adjourned when the credential count was announced Questions were asked about how delegate seats would be filled for the delegates leaving It was explained that alternates would be chosen at random to backfill delegates that left, but chosen from the same candidate’s side as the delegate It was explained that precint didn’t matter for the delegate/alternate It was explained that male delegates must be replaced by male alternates and female delegates must be replaced by female alternates There were questions asked about those rules and the chair and others on stage said they didn’t know The speakers explained that they are simply executing with the rules, they don’t set them or understand them A “representative” for Sanders was then introduced and given the opportunity to give a speech His speech was only a couple minutes long and absolutely terrible His speech didn’t represent Sanders accurately and Sanders supporters actually booed him A “representative” for Clinton then gave a 5+ minute speech His speech tried to claim that it won’t matter whether Clinton or Sanders is elected because they both have the same values, but that we should rally behind Clinton At the end of his speech, a motion was put forth to allow for 2nd speeches or for the 1st Sanders speech to be redacted The motion was denied saying “there are no provisions for additional speeches” Instead, we moved to a 5-minute recess After the recess was ended, it was announced that delegates had been seated and alternates not running as delegates could go home After a short while, the credential count was announced and there were only 522 delegates named — it was stated that we needed to get to 599 — therefore we’d need to seat 77 more alternates A motion was put forth to accept the 522-delegate count and proportionally assign delegates instead of seating alternates That motion ended up getting rejected and they called a long list of names to seat alternates After a while, they read a list of names for more alternates that needed to be seated After the names had been read, it was said once again that alternates not running to be delegates could go home A moment later, another list of names was presented to the chair for more alternates that needed to be seated A while later, a new credential count was announced: 562 delegates (still not at 599) Of the 562, it was 369 Sanders and 193 Clinton Someone declared that once we hit 40% of the delegate count it can be declared final and “we can go home” There was confusing discussion and a motion was put forth to make the 562-delegate count final A motion was then put forth to forego discussion around whether or not that motion should be voted on That motion was put to vote and the Clinton side of the room strongly voted for it while the Sanders side of the room strongly (perhaps unanimously) voted against it The vote was called in favor of ending discussion so the credential count could be finalized A motion was called to ask for an accurate count of the votes The motion to end discussion for the motion to finalize the 562-delegate credential count was then voted on again, with an accurate vote count taken The vote was announced and it was clear that the discussion needed to be allowed A question was asked if they were still seating alternates — they weren’t sure A question was asked about what to do if we ran out of alterantes — they didn’t know A question was asked about when we’d vote for delegates for the next stage — they didn’t clearly explain A question was asked about what the breakdown was for the empty seats I had gone out to the registration table a few times and asked if any Sanders delegate seats still needed to be filled I was repeatedly told “no” and that all Sanders delegate seats had been filled; only Clinton seats remained empty They then announced the answer to the question of the breakdown of empty seats The answer indicated that the majority of the empty seats were on the Clinton side But it was stated that there were “about a few” empty seats on the Sanders side I went back to the registration table and asked to be registered I was told that the Sanders side was full I went back into the room and confirmed with a delegate that they had just said there were empty Sanders seats I then went back to the registration table and demanded to be registered While I was going back and forth, the motion to finalize the delegate count was voted on After registering and being handed my blue credential slip, I returned to the room As I reentered, I heard it was passed that the credential count was finalized

I honestly do not know if I was seated as a delegate or not.

I did not capture everything here; there was far more confusion than I was able to absorb. I don’t know that anyone left the 48th LD caucus with a clear understanding of the results.