Date: Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 7:05 AM
To: South Dakota Democratic Party
The second and final round of delegate selection for six delegate positions and one alternate position will take place Saturday afternoon, June 28, by the S.D. Democratic Party State Central Committee at Cedar Shore Resort & Convention Center.
The deadline for applications for these positions must be received by noon Friday, June 13, at the S.D. Democratic Party office, P.O. Box 1485, Sioux Falls, SD 57101 (street address is 309 W. 43rd Street - Suite 107, Sioux Falls, SD 57105).
Due to the result of Tuesday's primary election, Hillary Clinton received six district-level delegates plus two alternates and Barack Obama received four delegates plus one alternate. These delegates and alternates were chosen in Pierre at the state caucus and their names appeared in rank order on the primary ballot. In the final round June 28, Clinton will receive an additional three pledged delegates and one alternate and Obama will receive two pledged delegates.
Here are the positions that are available and how they must be pledged:
- Three committed at-large delegates - Two positions must be pledged to Hillary Clinton and one to Barack Obama.
- One at-large alternate - Must be pledged to Hillary Clinton.
- Two pledged Party Leader & Elected Official delegate positions - One must be pledged to Hillary Clinton and one must be pledged to Barack Obama. People who qualify as "Party Leaders & Elected Officials" must be Democrats who hold elected office in South Dakota or who hold official party office positions, such as chair, vice chair to precinct committee woman and man.
- One unpledged add-on delegate - This position is nominated from the floor by the State Chair and the State Central Committee. If you want to be considered for nomination, you may select unpledged add-on delegate on the form or you may contact a member of the State Central Committee.
Delegate application forms have been in circulation among local party officials, campaigns and others. Please forward copies to registered Democrats who express an interest in competing to receive any of these remaining positions.
Here are a few important notes:
* The State Central Committee is not the same entity as Delegates to the State Democratic Party Convention, (please fill out and send in that form [PDF, 118K]) which also meets June 26-28 at Cedar Shore Resort. The State Central Committee is comprised of the chair, vice chair, state central committee woman and state central committee man in each organized county of South Dakota.
* The vote by the Central Committee on these positions is based on a "weighted vote," according to Democratic National Committee rules. This means each county party votes a strength based on the number of votes received in 2006 by the Democratic governor candidate. The counties which posted the highest number of votes in 2006 will have the greatest portion of weighted votes (i.e., Minnehaha, Pennington, Brown counties).
* The weighted vote of each county may be divided according to the number of central committee members from the county are present. For example, if Aurora County cast 1,000 votes for the Democratic candidate for governor in 2006, and only two members of the county's central committee delegation attend the meeting June 28, the vote may be split according to the members present. In other words, one member can cast 500 votes for one candidate and the other member can cast 500 votes for the other candidate. There is no proxy voting in Central Committee meetings and there is no secret ballot.
* The Obama and Clinton campaigns have the right to discard applications submitted for their respective pledged delegate/alternate positions prior to the June 28 meeting. This means if the presidential primary campaign's representatives tells the State Central Committee that only three names out of all the applicants may be considered for the pledged positions available, the Central Committee may only vote on the approved names.
* A bias will be implemented by the State Central Committee's selections on June 28 so that South Dakota will meet its affirmative action goals which are established in the 2008 Delegate Selection Plan. Some of those goals were achieved in the selection June 3 achieved with the 10 district delegates. The remaining goals MUST be the result from the June 28 selection - a 50/50 gender balance (realizing there will be 23 delegates), one disabled person, one Native American person, and one person from the
lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender population.
The attachment (PDF, 378K) is the form for delegate/alternate positions which will be chosen June 28.
Best wishes,
Rick
Richard A. Hauffe
Executive Director
South Dakota Democratic Party
Post Office Box 1485
Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57101-1485
Office Phone 605.271.5405
Cellular Phone 605.759.7499
Email rhauffe@sio.midco.net
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