If you were watching Bernie Sanders deliver his passionate address a few hours ago to an even more passionate and at times frenzied crowd of supporters, prior to the opening gavel at #DNCinPHL, you might have noticed his wife Jane step forward and take the podium next to him during one particularly charged moment. As the crowd began to chant "BERNIE!" after he had tried unsuccessfully to shepherd his followers towards Team Hillary, Jane leaned towards him and made what she obviously thought was a comment between just the two of them - clearly not realizing that her microphone was still on and broadcasting.
"They don't know your name is being put in nomination...that's what concerns them."
Many people were confused initially as to what that actually meant, and there was a flood of social media chatter as people speculated wildly on the implications of the phrase "in nomination." Eventually the Sanders camp confirmed: the delegates had succeeded in calling for a roll call vote - the same noisy, disorganized procedure that had caused such a ruckus at the Republican National Convention last week.
It's Official: Bernie Sanders Will Be Placed On Nomination At DNC (USUncut)
...Which is actually kind of a fairly serious deal. Essentially it means that, rather than having Hillary be the presumptive, unopposed nominee, this will be a contested convention - just like Bernie Sanders promised it would be from the beginning. Delegates will have the chance to vote for their nominee from the floor of the convention center.
Breaking: DNC Stuns America, Will Place Bernie Sanders' Name On Nomination (Biparitisan Report)
Of course, like so many other aspects of our inefficient and prehistoric electoral system, the roll call is a VOICE VOTE, which has led to the appearance of several insanely surreal signs like this.
What is this? Is this the year 2016?
The aim of this strategy, ultimately, is to convince superdelegates to flip for him. Some already in fact have. With Hillary's trustworthiness rating in the 33% range and her credibility in shambles, there seems like a legitimately good chance that many delegates may reconsider before casting their vote.
It is absolutely bothersome that we are so advanced in everything except roll call votes. It's 2016 and we are still using a volume level indication of how the vote should go. ROCK Concerts do this, are you kidding me?
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Like everything else in the current electoral system - superdelegates, closed primaries, etc etc. - the process is preserved to cement the current power structure. If you saw the way the RNC roll call vote went down, Reince Priebus called for the "Yea"s, then gaveled the vote as a YEA before even hearing the "NAY"s. It's to ensure a completely subjective voting experience which can be obfuscated to the party's advantage.
Like why so many of these violent unjustified police encounters start with "the officer detected an odor of marijuana coming from the car." It's something subjective they can write on the report afterwards since how can you argue with someone's sense of smell? (Or the volume of a room full of people screaming YAAAAAAAYNOOOOO!!!)
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You would think we would want to move forward, but I suppose it allows them to maintain control where as moving to a more advanced and organized system would make them relinquish of that control.
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