MorningPerson
Pearl Clutcher
Posts: 2,537 
Location: Central Pennsylvania
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Post by MorningPerson on Apr 18, 2016 19:37:35 GMT
I will be out of town when the Pennsylvania primaries happen next week, so I went to our county election office to fill out an absentee ballot. I'm guessing this has always been on the ballot, but I never noticed it. At the top of the section where you vote for delegates to the national convention it says "Vote for not more than 3 males and 2 females."
What does gender have to do with anything? What if there are 5 good females and 5 lousy males? What if there are 5 good males and 5 lousy females? To be clear, I know nothing about any of the delegates other than who they're committed to. So the good/lousy thing doesn't come into play here. It's just that the gender mention rubbed me the wrong way.
Does your state also do this? It seems archaic to me. I really don't care what sex someone is.
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Post by ilikepink on Apr 18, 2016 20:54:03 GMT
I'm not sure about PA and your county, but in the small town in NJ where I lived, each district had 2 reps to the party committee - one male and one female. There was only one nominee in each for as long back as I remembered, though. It could be something like that - to make more balanced representation.
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basketdiva
Pearl Clutcher
Posts: 3,649
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Post by basketdiva on Apr 18, 2016 21:04:03 GMT
I will be out of town when the Pennsylvania primaries happen next week, so I went to our county election office to fill out an absentee ballot. I'm guessing this has always been on the ballot, but I never noticed it. At the top of the section where you vote for delegates to the national convention it says "Vote for not more than 3 males and 2 females." What does gender have to do with anything? What if there are 5 good females and 5 lousy males? What if there are 5 good males and 5 lousy females? To be clear, I know nothing about any of the delegates other than who they're committed to. So the good/lousy thing doesn't come into play here. It's just that the gender mention rubbed me the wrong way. Does your state also do this? It seems archaic to me. I really don't care what sex someone is. That is bs-telling you to vote for more men than women. If you feel all men or all woman are qualified than you should be able to vote for them. So does that mean if you vote 3 women your ballot is tossed in the trash??? I'm surprised that that is even allowed in this day and age. |
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Post by anxiousmom on Apr 18, 2016 21:14:48 GMT
Do your delegates follow demographics? Maybe the rule is to keep it similar to the male/female ratio of your state?
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Post by epeanymous on Apr 18, 2016 21:42:33 GMT
I believe it is national Democratic Party rules. I caucused here Iin WA yesterday and we voted by gender.
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Post by pierkiss on Apr 18, 2016 21:51:19 GMT
I believe it is national Democratic Party rules. I caucused here Iin WA yesterday and we voted by gender. What do you mean you voted by gender? |
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Post by epeanymous on Apr 18, 2016 22:39:02 GMT
I believe it is national Democratic Party rules. I caucused here Iin WA yesterday and we voted by gender. What do you mean you voted by gender? I mean that we had to elect 30 delegates, and those delegates had to be 15 female and 15 male delegates. We had separate male and female ballots, each listing the 150ish people running for delegate (150ish men, 150ish women). Everyone, male and female, voted for both male and female delegates. |
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