GOP Says EFCA’s Secret Ballot Is Sacrosanct — But RNC Itself Forbids It!

[Earth Bound Misfit]

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/republican-national-committee/gop-says-efcas-secret-ballot-is-sacrosanct-but-rnc-itself-forbids-it/

Okay, this is funny. As you know, opponents of the Employee Free Choice Act — the Republican National Committee included — like to argue that the measure is a threat to American Democracy because it effectively eliminates the “secret ballot” as a way to decide whether to join a union. The RNC says this in their party platform.

It turns out, though, that the RNC itself forbids the “secret ballot” as a way for the committee to make many of its own decisions!

From the party rules:


No votes (except elections to office when properly ordered pursuant to the provisions of Robert’s Rules of Order) shall be taken by secret ballot in any open meeting of the Republican National Committee or of any committee thereof.

To be sure, this is fairly standard for committees like the RNC. But the point here is that even the RNC is implicitly acknowledging that the “secret ballot” is not the only fair or Democratic way to make decisions by vote. And yet the sanctity of the “secret ballot” is one of the RNC’s central arguments against Employee Free Choice.

[drm604]

1. Very nice talking point.

The question is - how do we get this into the media?

[Usrename]

2. I like this.

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