Voter Disenfranchisement Within the Divine 9: Why Delegate Systems and Other Counterproductive Voting Frameworks Need to Go

This article shows the incongruence between the values that are purportedly near and dear to the hearts of Black Greek letter fraternity and sorority members vis-à-vis the practices in which they engage. Specifically, this work argues that the use of delegate systems and other curious voting frameworks benefit the few at the expense of the many resulting in a similar type of disenfranchisement and marginalization that the white founding fathers had in mind when they created the electoral college.