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State Convention Delegate
Jun. 13th, 2020 02:57 pmBesides having been Precinct 40 Chair for Lyon County's local Democratic Presidential caucuses and then later a (virtual) delegate to the Lyon County Democratic Convention, I ended up being one of Lyon County's delegates to the Nevada State Democratic Convention, which is happening this weekend. Like the county convention, the state convention is online-only, and mainly consisted of voting on Nevada's delegates to the national convention, members of the various state party governing bodies (in my case, the rural counties caucus, where "rural" = "Not Clark (Las Vegas) and Washoe (Reno) counties"), and voting yes or no on the state party platform.
I was disappointed that we couldn't vote seriatim (that is, by individual plank) on the state platform, because there was at least one plank against which I would have voted, but I did vote yes on the overall platform anyway.
The candidate for which I caucused and nominally represented at the state convention, Elizabeth Warren, did not get enough commitments at the earlier stages to qualify for delegates to the national convention, so I had to select among the delegates for those candidates who did qualify.
Rather than any form of online gathering, we submitted all of our votes via Google Forms using a security key sent to each state delegate. It's less chaotic than the enormous state convention, but pretty antiseptic. My "convention" lasted only a few minutes, while I read the candidate statements and decided for whom to cast my votes.
This online conventioneering is nowhere near as interesting as doing it in person, but it's certainly much safer in this time of pandemic.
I was disappointed that we couldn't vote seriatim (that is, by individual plank) on the state platform, because there was at least one plank against which I would have voted, but I did vote yes on the overall platform anyway.
The candidate for which I caucused and nominally represented at the state convention, Elizabeth Warren, did not get enough commitments at the earlier stages to qualify for delegates to the national convention, so I had to select among the delegates for those candidates who did qualify.
Rather than any form of online gathering, we submitted all of our votes via Google Forms using a security key sent to each state delegate. It's less chaotic than the enormous state convention, but pretty antiseptic. My "convention" lasted only a few minutes, while I read the candidate statements and decided for whom to cast my votes.
This online conventioneering is nowhere near as interesting as doing it in person, but it's certainly much safer in this time of pandemic.
