I think the voting thing is okay, because honestly, a girl initiated at one chapter may not have anything in common with another chapter. For example, my initiating chapter is about 60 miles away from another Gamma Phi chapter, and we've had several girls transfer to that school, but choose not to affiliate - our chapters are very very different: 20 sisters v. 120, tiny house v. mansion on a lake, etc. Ignoring those differences, the chapters are composed of very different types of girls. Yes, they are still our sisters in Gamma Phi Beta, but that's about all we have in common. I briefly thought about transferring to that school and I know I wouldn't have affiliated if I had - I just wouldn't have fit in. I think it's a little silly for us to be so sunshiney to assume that every XYZ all over the country would fit in with every XYZ chapter - it's just not true.
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