Friday, June 09, 2006

About voting in caucuses

In my SD (Senate District) caucus, I learned about the State Rules regarding the caucus voting process.

At the beginning of the caucus, we were told what we needed to vote on: Team counters, Caucus Chair, committees (Nominations, Rules, Resolutions, and Platform), as well as voting for the SDEC reps (male and female).

SD4 contains multiple counties; mine is Montgomery.

We originally voted on the first two by simple majority vote of the delegates present. Then a motion/objection was raised: by the rules of the Democratic Party it is necessary to vote with "representative voting", meaning that on each vote we were required to vote in our county caucuses, get the vote in each SD, and then count those votes proportional to our respective counties.

This is a way of being able to proportionally represent all of the counties within a district.

It takes more time to do this, but most people (myself included) don't complain.

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