I've received some questions about the voting process for Saturday's nominating meeting, so I thought I would explain how that will work.
The 4th Senatorial District Committee is made up of the Democratic Committeepeople from each of the wards within the district. There are 18 wards, with a Committeeman and Committeewoman from each ward, so a total of 36 people. It is this group that will nominate the Democratic Party nominee who will then file to run in the November 3rd General Election against candidates from other parties.
The Committee's voting at the nominating meeting is weighted based on how many votes were cast for the Democratic candidate for Governor in the last Gubernatorial election within each precinct of each ward that is within the 4th District. Each Committeeperson gets 1 vote per 1,000 votes (or major fraction thereof).
In the 15th Ward, precincts 1, 2, 3, and 5 are within the 4th District and had a total of 3718 votes for Jay Nixon last fall. Therefore, Committeeman Gregg Christian and I each get 4 votes, so the 15th Ward has a total of 8 votes.
There are 132 total votes available but each Committeeperson must be present at the vote to cast their allotment (there is no proxy voting in a nominating meeting). So, if someone is unable to attend the meeting on Saturday, their votes will be unused.
