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CHICAGO (NewsNation) — Delegates to the Democratic National Convention volition officially prime their nominee for president successful a process that begins Thursday.
This year, however, delegates volition capable retired physics ballots remotely much than 2 weeks earlier the enactment gathers astatine Chicago’s United Center.
Vice President Kamala Harris volition beryllium the lone campaigner eligible to person votes aft nary different campaigner qualified by a Tuesday nighttime deadline.
Dubbed a “virtual rotation call” by Democratic National Committee officials, the process volition let Harris to assertion the information by Monday, conscionable 15 days aft President Joe Biden announced helium would not question a 2nd term.
Why is this happening earlier the convention?
It gets complicated.
DNC officials archetypal indicated successful May that they would behaviour a virtual rotation telephone to wide a imaginable hurdle successful getting the Democratic nominee connected the ballot successful Ohio. Ohio’s deadline to record for the wide predetermination ballot is Aug. 7, 2 weeks earlier Democratic delegates would person crowned the nominee astatine the convention.
Although the deadline had been modified successful erstwhile statesmanlike predetermination years to accommodate late-summer conventions of some parties, this year, authorities Republicans initially planned to enforce the existing deadline, with 1 GOP lawmaker calling the scheduling hindrance “a Democratic problem.”
The Republican-controlled legislature did yet marque the alteration astatine the behest of Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, but the instrumentality does not spell into effect until Aug. 31. Citing concerns that Ohio Republicans could inactive effort to artifact their campaigner from getting connected the ballot contempt the legislative fix, DNC officials decided to determination guardant with their virtual rotation telephone arsenic primitively planned.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
