Aug 1 :
The electronic voting that will confirm Kamala Harris as the Democratic US presidential nominee will begin on August 1 and replace the traditional in-person balloting that typically begins the party's national convention. In the short time since Joe Biden withdrew from the race for reelection, his 52-year-old vice president has risen to the position of party leader, challenging Republican Donald Trump in November.
A little under four thousand delegates—politicians and grassroots organizers chosen during the primary—signed a petition urging Harris to be included in the five-day electronic vote. Her confirmation as the first Black and South Asian woman to ever get a major party's nomination is now a formality, because no other Democratic candidate has come forward to oppose her elevation to the position of ticket head.
According to a statement from the Democratic National Committee (DNC), she received the backing of all 99 percent of the delegates who signed the petitions; however, no one else managed to get the necessary 300 signatures. "Our delegates have an important responsibility -- and opportunity -- in the days ahead to cast their history-making ballots for Vice President Harris, ensuring that she will be on the ballot in every state this November," said Jaime Harrison, chair of the DNC.
"Our party has met this unprecedented moment with a transparent, democratic and orderly process to unite behind a nominee with a proven record who will lead us in the fight ahead." In addition to the "pledged" delegates, there are approximately 700 "superdelegates" who are eligible to vote due to their position in the party or their elected office, such as state governors or members of the US Congress.
On August 1, at 9:00 am the roll call will begin, and delegates will have until August 5, at 6:00 pm to cast their ballots on the DNC's online platform. She and her newly announced running mate are expected to start the campaign trail in late August, making stops in seven key battleground states. The announcement of her running mate has not been announced yet. She was supposed to begin the trip in Pennsylvania on August 6, according to US media, but the DNC did not immediately respond to a request for confirmation.
Though unique, the nominating process for 2024 is very similar to that of 2020, when a big in-person convention was canceled due to the COVID-19 epidemic. Because the deadline for major parties to submit the names of its certified candidates for the November election in Ohio is next Wednesday, the DNC decided to switch to a virtual approach. But there's still a lot we don't know about the results release.
No information has been provided by the DNC regarding the availability of a rolling tally or livestreaming of the vote. Additionally, it is unclear whether the results will be made public before the voting period ends, assuming they are. While thousands of party grassroots activists converge on Chicago on August 19th, the virtual roll-call signifies the formal commencement of the 2024 convention. Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock told a boisterous, 10,000-strong crowd at Harris's rally in Atlanta on July 30 that she went to the prestigious Howard University, worked in California, and served in the US Senate. Her father is of Jamaican descent, and her mother is of South Asian descent.
