"That same-day registration was good enough for many of the voters who made Sanders (not a Democrat) the choice of Hawaii Democrats, but not good enough to annoint Gates a Democrat in the eyes of Vandeveer and party rules does not compute."

My goodness!  Your computer is malfunctioning.

According to my dictionary, anoint means to "nominate or choose someone as successor to or leading candidate for a position".  Members of the Democratic party aren't anointed, they join. 

The party rule clearly distinguishes Gates from the many voters who joined the party to vote for one of its candidates in the caucus.  Gates ran for office recently as a member of a different party, and the others did not.

I agree with Bart Dame that there is nothing here to implicate Vandeveer in trying to sway elections.  If you think he did, then expose the evidence so we can give him the Schultz treatment.

Sanders, whether or not you consider him a Democrat,  ran legitimately on the Democratic ticket.  

Pau!