The DNC's virtual roll call to nominate Kamala Harris started today. Here's how the vote works. (2024)

Politics

By Aaron Navarro

/ CBS News

Starting on Thursday morning, delegates in the Democratic Partywill vote virtually to select their new nominee, formally elevating Vice President Kamala Harris to the top of the ticket for November. Harris is running unopposed, since no other candidate met the requirements to qualify. Here's more on what it means and how the vote will work:

Who gets to vote?

The nearly 4,000 pledged delegates allocated during the Democratic primary process will be voting on the nomination.

Do Biden's delegates automatically go to Harris?

The vast majority of the party's delegates were pledged to President Biden before he dropped out and endorsed Harris. These delegates weren't automatically assigned to Harris, but within the 48 hours of her campaign launch, an overwhelming majority of the delegates said they would back her.

Is anyone challenging Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination?

Under DNC rules, Harris' presidential campaign — and anyone seeking to challenge her — had to file paperwork with the DNC and obtain digital signatures from at least 300 delegates, with no more than 50 from a single state, by July 30 at 6 p.m. ET.

No challenger met that threshold to contest Harris' nomination; instead, the most likely figures quickly backed her nomination. At this point, she is the presumptive nominee, and the vote is largely ceremonial.

In the days since Mr. Biden dropped out and endorsed her, Harris has won endorsem*nts from more than 3,000 of the 4,000 pledged delegates. She ended up with 3,923 delegate signatures during the qualifying period. The number of delegate votes she needs in the virtual roll call to secure the nomination is 1,976.

How will the DNC's virtual roll call work?

The committee's rules established that if only one candidate qualified, the party would hold a roll call vote virtually as soon as Aug. 1 — not in person at its mid-August convention in Chicago.

Party leaders announced Tuesday night that delegates would be able to vote electronically beginning at 9 a.m. ET on Thursday, Aug. 1. The voting will conclude at 6 p.m. ET on Monday, Aug. 5.

Delegates are voting through an online platform run by the DNC, using a personalized and watermarked form sent over email. They can either send the form back or have the DNC call them to cast their vote. Ballots are being sent on a rolling basis, and the process is expected to take several days. Once the votes are in, the DNC will tally them and share the full results after the roll call is closed.

"Each roll call form has a range of security features to establish the authenticity and accuracy of each vote. Clear instructions and technical support will be provided to delegates," the DNC has said.

The process for the virtual roll call and the gathering of delegate signatures largely mirrors the process used in 2020, during the pandemic.

Automatic delegates or "superdelegates," such as Democratic governors, members of Congress and former presidents, also have a vote in the signature threshold and the roll call process. The DNC says because Harris got the verified support of a majority of pledged delegates, the votes of both pledged delegates and superdelegates will count on the first ballot of the virtual roll call.

The DNC said it will share the full results of the roll call after it is completed, but it's unclear when or whether they will make an announcement once Harris passes the threshold needed to secure a majority of delegates.

Will Harris and her running mate be nominated at the same time?

While the DNC has said that option is possible, the vice presidential candidate does not have to be nominated at the same time as the presidential nominee. Harris must pick a running mate by Aug. 7 to comply with Ohio's current ballot deadline, which remains in effect. Harris' team is planning to finish the vetting of the VP field and expects her to pick her running mate by Aug. 5, sources familiar with the process say.

Sometime after Harris makes her pick, Moore will declare her choice the nominee. There is no vote on the vice presidential pick. At the in-person convention in Chicago, there will be ceremonial votes for Harris and her running mate, but the ticket will have been established by then.

Why is the DNC holding an early virtual roll call vote before the convention?

In May, the DNC made a push for a virtual process because of Ohio's Aug. 7 deadline for major parties to submit the names of their certified candidates for the November ballot.

While Ohio Republicans passed a law to push that deadline to Sept. 1, it will not go into effect until then. Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, a Republican, says Ohio would honor that Sept. 1 deadline. But the DNC and members say the possibility of legal challenges by other outside groups, such as the conservative Heritage Foundation, creates unnecessary risk.

"If we take chances with state processes and deadlines, Republican groups could make the argument to challenge Democratic votes on the post-election side, arguing that our nominee should never have been on the ballot in the first place," said DNC outside counsel Pat Moore.

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  • Kamala Harris
  • Democratic Party
  • Democratic National Convention
  • Politics
  • 2024 Elections

Aaron Navarro

Aaron Navarro is a CBS News digital reporter covering the 2024 elections. He was previously an associate producer for the CBS News political unit in the 2021 and 2022 election cycles.

The DNC's virtual roll call to nominate Kamala Harris started today. Here's how the vote works. (2024)

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