Thanks for enlightening us yet another amazing Texan trait , Ram. I know weird is everywhere. But this certainly stands out :-)
At 11:33 AM -0600 3/5/08, Ram Sarangapani wrote: >Very few people in Texas have voted in the primaries and much less in the >Democratic primaries. >And boy, was it an experience. > >For those who are not familiar with the process, Texas has, what they call, >a "two-step' process for the Democrats. The Republican, don't go thru that >process in the Primaries - its the regular 'vote your candidate' process. > >The first part is to vote for the particular Democratic Party candidate , >and a certain number of 'committed delegates' are given proportionally to >the the candidates. > >The second part is what is called the "Caucus". Now, this is easier said >than explained. But basically, from what I understand: >After the last person in line (at 7 PM) has voted, the Caucus begin. In the >Caucus, people are supposed to 'influence and cajole' voters who don't >support your candidate, form a goup and elect delegates to the State/Central >convention who will, in turn represent your candidate and cast their ballots >in his/favor. > >Confused? Well, so am I, and everyone I know is too. > >What really happened: from start to finish - it took about 5 hours. There >were just 6 machines, 3 people to register, and a bunch of other volunteers >giving you wrong information from time to time. > >But we did get to vote, and then stood in line for caucusing (if thats a >word). After an eternity, they basically told us to separate into lines (one >for Hillary and the other for Obama). The Hillary line had only a few >people, the Obama line was long in the precinct we voted. In the Caucusing >part, we had to write our names/address etc on a form. Thats it. > >There was no 'caucusing' in the cacus. They could have just cut to the >chase, and kept a form next to the ballot machines and people could have >done the same thing. > >On the whole, it was fun, and exciting to have taken part in a process that >certainly seems important.. > >Hope y'all enjoyed this. > >Well, that much for politics - at least as its done in Texas. > >--Ram >_______________________________________________ >assam mailing list >assam@assamnet.org >http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org _______________________________________________ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
