Wow! Things were a lot more confusing in Portland than anyone has reported, after I've talked with some music friends who attended the caucus. Imagine 250 people from one precinct trying to jam into a classroom for 30 students and trying to keep track of who was doing what. And there were about 20 precincts jammed into one high school.

As for my beloved personal forms, according to one friend no one had a clue what to do with them in his precinct after they had filled them out. So some took them home and some dropped them in the trash can. Well, I suppose as long as the votes for each candidate were recorded on something the forms really were not crucial but they were supposed to be a record of at least attendence and identification of who was to be a delegate or alternate. Wonder when this part of the story will hit the newspaper.

Maybe we should go back to a regular primary where ballots are counted and sealed into steel boxes.

Charley Noble