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The Democratic National Committee Winter Meeting is taking place at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md.

Proxy form for General Session and Party Officer Elections.

The Rules and Bylaws Committee previously met and adopted rules of procedure for the officer elections to recommend to the full assembly for adoption at the General Session on January 31, consistent with the DNC bylaws, which state that the DNC is responsible for:

“providing for the election or appointment of a Chairperson, five Vice Chairpersons, one of whom shall be the President of the Association of State Democratic Committees and one of whom shall be the Vice Chairperson for Civic Engagement and Voter Participation, a Treasurer, a Secretary, and a National Finance Chair, who, with the exception of the Chairperson, shall be as equally divided as practicable according to gender at the quadrennial election, as defined in the Democratic National Committee Charter, Article Nine, Section 16 [Ed.: should be 15]”

The order of elections, according to the proposed rules of procedure, is:

• Chair
• Treasurer
• Secretary
• National Finance Chair
• Vice Chairperson for Civic Engagement and Voter Participation
• and the three other Vice Chairpersons

The DNC charter requires the eight officers other than the Chair to be balanced by gender, which is done by restricting the candidates for the last three Vice Chairs if necessary. As only seven are elected at the Winter Meeting (the eighth is the to-be-elected president of the Association of State Democratic Committees), the balance will be off by one (unless an officer is non-binary).