[irishpipes]

Think of a presidential election. A person has to be 35 and a natural-born citizen to run for president. Doesn't mean they'll win. Then pundits try to determine why a certain candidate didn't win when he/she was so qualified. These pundits can speculate that it was because of the candidate's religious views, military history, race, or position on this issue or that. But really, voters don't have to have any reason at all to not vote for a candidate. It can be all of those reasons and it can be none of them.

Some PNMs just don't make a good enough impression, for whatever reason, to that group of young women, at that particular moment. Moms (and sometimes alumnae) may prefer that membership selection would lean heavier to the objective criteria, but once minimum criteria are met, it can be any reason or no reason that a PNM isn't selected. The reason one member didn't vote for a girl could be an entirely different reason from why another member didn't.