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    Will there be more presidential caucus chaos? 'Nevada is just praying'

    by Seema Mehta and Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times Feb 20, 2020 4 minutes

    LAS VEGAS - Dozens of Democratic volunteers scurried around Dona Maria Mexican Restaurant in polite pandemonium last week as they staged a mock caucus to prepare for the real thing on Saturday in Nevada.

    A dining area filled with cries of "Salma Hayek!" "Jennifer Lopez!" "Salma Hayek!" as the volunteers playfully grouped themselves by favorite celebrity rather than by favorite candidate to familiarize themselves with the state's caucus process.

    That was the fun part. But when it came time to actually count votes - not a mere act of addition but a whole gantlet of subtraction, multiplication and division to award delegates - the room fell quiet as participants stared at a whiteboard spreadsheet more than eight columns wide. The complexity of Nevada's

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