The Democratic National Committee (DNC) began its early vote on Aug. 1 to formally nominate Vice President Kamala Harris for president, keeping to an earlier promise to hold a virtual roll call ahead of the party’s convention.
The DNC opened the vote at 9 a.m., allowing delegates to email back a personalized and watermarked form or cast their vote by phone. The committee is sending the ballots on a rolling basis in a process that will likely take several days until the voting window closes at 6 p.m. on Aug. 5.
The Democratic National Convention is scheduled for Aug. 19–22 in Chicago.
Harris is the only candidate eligible to receive delegate votes after no others qualified by the July 30 deadline. She already submitted signatures from 3,923 delegates who have pledged their support, according to a DNC statement, making up 84 percent of the full delegation. She needs to secure a majority of delegates, 1,976, to become the official presidential nominee of the Democratic Party….