In June, the Democratic National Committee’s rules panel quietly added language to the 2028 delegate selection rules that bans state parties from using ranked choice voting in their own presidential nominating processes. Twelve state parties have used ranked choice voting somewhere in that process over the last two cycles, and not one of them was invited to present before the vote. This isn’t about whether you love RCV. It’s about whether the national party should strip states of a tool that’s working for them -a tool that more than doubled primary turnout in Wyoming and nearly quadrupled it in Kansas- while banning RCV sits on the Heritage Foundation’s priority list and inside Project 2025. Democrats should not be doing Republicans’ work for them.

There’s one chance to fix it: a vote of the full DNC membership in Austin this August. The fix is simple: strike the ban language and return the rules to what they’ve always been, with every state deciding for itself. No one would be required to use ranked choice voting; states would simply keep the right to choose.

Here’s how you can help

1. Contact any DNC members you know and ask them to support removing the ban. Use this link to contact them in two easy steps! 
2. Join the National Call on Tuesday, July 28 at 8:30 PM ET / 7:30 PM CT, where state party leaders who’ve actually run these elections share what’s at stake.
3. Sign the petition!

Click here for the Zoom link.

More information and details about the proposed change can be found here.

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The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act establishes a targeted process for
reviewing voting changes in jurisdictions nationwide, focused on measures that have
historically been used to discriminate against voters. It would allow a federal court to order
states or jurisdictions to be covered for results-based violations, where a particular measure
has a disparate racial impact on voting.

The Act would increase transparency by requiring reasonable public notice for
voting changes, and would grant the U.S. Attorney General authority to request federal
observers be present anywhere in the country where there is a serious threat of racial
discrimination in voting. It would also increase accessibility and protections for Native American
and Alaska Native voters.

Gov Abbott & his gaggle of Radical Republicans want to defund our public schools so they can send kickbacks to their billionaire mega-donors. Sign this petition to stop them from defunding our public schools! Click here to help us recruit other signers. 

The Permanent Rules Committee passed this proposal and we now ask for the General Body to support it as well. 

Please complete this form to access the slide deck from the above mentioned meeting.