The DPVC 2024 Ward Meetings and County Convention will be held on Saturday, February 17th at the Los Lunas Transportation Center.

The schedule is:

9:55am – 10:55am – Registration for Ward Meetings

11:00am – Ward Meetings

12pm – Lunch

12:55pm – 1:55pm – Registration for County Convention

2pm – County Convention

Official Call for the Democratic Party of Valencia County Ward Elections and 2024 Pre-Primary Convention

February 1^st, 2024

Ms. Jessica Velasquez, the Chair of the Democratic Party of New Mexico (DPNM), has issued the official CALL to the DPNM 2024 State Pre-Primary Nominating Convention, to be held Saturday, March 9th, 2024. The purpose of the State Pre-Primary Convention is to accomplish the following:

1. Nominate Democratic candidates whose names will appear on the NM Primary ballot in June.
2. Vote on whether to adopt the new DPNM Platform presented by the State Platform Committee.
3. Deliberate, debate, and vote on any DPNM Resolutions presented at the convention.

CALL to the DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF VALENCIA COUNTY WARD ELECTIONS and 2024 PRE-PRIMARY CONVENTION

Pursuant to the DPNM Chair’s official CALL for the DPNM State Pre-Primary Convention, I am now issuing the official CALL to the DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF VALENCIA COUNTY 2024 Pre-Primary Convention and to the Ward Elections of Convention Delegates.

• The purpose of the County Pre-Primary Convention is to certify the election of twenty-three state-convention delegates who will represent Valencia County and vote accordingly at the March 9th State Pre-Primary Convention.
• Other business that may be conducted at the county convention includes adoption of county-party resolutions, adoption, or amendment of supplemental county-party rules, and conducting other business pertaining to the county party.

The DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF VALENCIA COUNTY 2024 County Pre-Primary Convention will be called to order at 2pm on Saturday, February 17, 2024 at the Los Lunas Transportation Center.

The electors (voters) at the county convention will be all convention attendees who are verified “30-day Democrats” registered in your county.

Because the Democratic Party of Valencia County conducts “pass through” (aka “certifying”) pre-primary conventions, the convention electors will certify the ward-elected delegates to be the county’s state-convention delegates.

• Registration of convention electors and other attendees will open at 12:55pm at the county convention location.
• Registration of convention electors and other attendees will close at 1:55pm.

Because Valencia County is split between two congressional districts, state-convention delegates will be certified as follows:

• The convention electors who reside in Congressional District [1] (CD-1) will certify only those state-convention delegates from CD-1.
• The convention electors who reside in Congressional District [2] (CD-2) will certify only those state-convention delegates from CD-2.

ELECTIONS OF STATE-CONVENTION DELEGATES IN THE WARDS

This message is also the official CALL to Ward meetings/elections to elect state-convention delegates, to be held as follows:

• All Wards: Called to order on February 17, 2024, at 11am, at the Los Lunas Transportation Center to elect 23 delegates. Registration opens at 10am.
• Please note: Each Ward will meet separately to elect 2 delegates except for Ward K which will elect 1 delegate.

All county residents who are registered Democrats in Valencia County by January 17, 2024, are eligible to vote in their ward elections.

• Registration and verification of status for ward elections will open at 9:55am at the ward meeting location.
• Registration and verification for ward members will close at 10:55am

NOTE: Late arrivals will not be registered and will not be able to vote in the ward elections.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

If you have any questions, please contact Summer Ludwig at chair@valenciademocrats.org or 316-518-0033, or contact DPNM Internal Party Affairs at PartyAffairs@nmDemocrats.org

Sincerely,

Summer Ludwig

Chair

Democratic Party of Valencia County