Don’t Forget the Precinct Convention!
Tomorrow is Election Day. After voting, don’t forget about your Democratic Party Precinct Convention!
Even if you voted early, you can still participate in your Precinct Convention tomorrow.
The Precinct Convention takes place at the Election Day polling place for your precinct. A full list of Election Day polling locations is available online from the Lubbock County Office of Elections.
The packets for the Democratic Party Precinct Conventions will be released at 7:15 by the Election Judge at the polling place. The Democratic Party Precinct Chair for the Precinct should call the convention to order, but if your precinct has no chair — or if that person is not there — anyone else who voted in the Democratic Party Primary in that Precinct can call the Precinct Convention to order. The instructions in the packet will explain what to do. If you want to get a head start, check out the rules on the Texas Democratic Party’s website.
Since this isn’t a presidential year, the most important thing you can do is to bring resolutions to your precinct convention. If a resolution is passed by a precinct, it is automatically considered at the County Convention (March 20 at Cavazos Jr. High). New resolutions can also be introduced from the floor at the County and even at the State conventions, but, practically speaking, new resolutions are harder to introduce at each higher level.
For me, the joy is always in meeting my Democratic neighbors, sometimes for the first time. This will be my third Precinct Convention, but the first one in my new precinct.
I’m looking forward to it, and I hope you are too.
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