Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Democracy In Action, Sort Of

At our Democratic Precinct convention in 2008, there were about 1000 people who showed up. All the people couldn't even fit into the school cafeteria where the event was held. This year, two years later, only five showed up. Three of us were elected delegates, though we had space for 33 delegates and 33 alternates. But still, the precinct will have its full voting force at the convention. If the three show up, then each one will have the voting force of eleven people. But it is not clear if all three will show up for the Travis County Convention as some were ambivalent, and there are no alternates. Will we have a situation where only one person speaks for the entire precinct?

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