The Nevada State Democratic Party is dedicated to creating a delegate selection plan tailored to Nevada and represents our Democratic Community. While maintaining some of our popular voting traditions like strip caucuses and bilingual preference cards, the State Party is increasing access to Democrats with expanded voting options and additional preference card translations.
The NSDP allows those who wish to participate, but aren’t yet registered Democrats the ability to register with the Democratic Party the same day they participate in the caucus.
With the help of the Culinary Union, the State Party hosts caucus sites on the Las Vegas Strip to ensure our hospitality workers have the opportunity to participate.
Nevada’s Latino community makes up nearly one third of our population so we offer bilingual preference cards for participants in English and Spanish.
Caucus sites are run by temporary precinct captains who are elected permanent captains at the beginning of the caucus process on Caucus Day.
The NSDP is expanding upon Caucus Day to include four days of in-person early voting to accommodate those unable to attend on February 22, 2020.
The State Party will also offer two days to participate in a virtual caucus for those who can’t attend in person.
We will maintain our tradition of hosting precinct caucuses and at-large caucus locations on the Las Vegas Strip.
We will also continue to offer same day registration to those who wish to participate, but aren’t yet registered Democrats.
We will expand upon our bilingual preference cards to include a third language, Tagalog, to accommodate our growing AAPI community.
The NSDP will publicly release raw vote totals per candidate on Caucus Day and have the ability to hold a recanvass or recount if necessary.
Nevada Democrats will now have the convenience of expanded voting options. They will be able to participate virtually or in-person leading up to Caucus Day. In creating an in-person early voting period and offering a method for absentee voters to participate, the 2020 caucus process will be more accessible and open.
The State Party will maintain our tradition of precinct caucuses and at-large strip caucuses to ensure our hospitality workers have the ability to participate on Caucus Day.
The State Party is committed to operating in a transparent and open manner. During our early vote period, we will not release any vote totals publicly--all results will be made public at the conclusion of Caucus Day. For the first time, the State Party will now release raw alignment totals per candidate and will have the ability to hold a recanvass or recount if necessary.
Additionally, delegate allocation will be final on Caucus Day and no longer negotiable at the county or state conventions.
Prior to Caucus Day, the Nevada State Democratic Party will sum raw early vote & virtual caucus totals by candidate for each precinct. The State Party will load early vote data using a secure tabulation method by precinct. This data will not be visible externally.
For precincts electing 2 delegates, viability shall be twenty-five percent (25%) of the eligible caucus attendees present and expressing presidential preference, plus the raw number of early and virtual caucus participants from the precinct.
For precincts electing 3 delegates, viability shall be one-sixth (1/6) of the eligible caucus attendees present and expressing presidential preference, plus the raw number of early and virtual caucus participants from the precinct.
For precincts electing 4 or more delegates, viability shall be fifteen percent (15%) of the eligible caucus attendees present and expressing presidential preference, plus the raw number of early and virtual caucus participants from the precinct.
Upon the conclusion of the announcement of results from the initial alignment, if and only if there are any non-viable preference groups, the eligible caucus attendees in those groups will have up to another fifteen (15) minutes to realign with a viable group. This process is the second alignment.
*The result of this formula shall be rounded up at .5, and rounded down below .5.
Due to rounding, it is possible to apportion more or less delegates than the caucus is required to elect. In these cases, a group or groups may gain or lose a delegate depending upon the fractions that result when determining their share of delegates. A group may never lose its only delegate.
These results will be determined at the caucus by the permanent chair using a secure reporting method. These results will then be reported to the Nevada State Democratic Party.
To fill the delegate positions awarded to each preference group, eligible participants shall elect by a show of hands, within that preference group, those delegates to county convention for any person nominated to run as a delegate.
Delegates can self-nominate or be nominated by another person.
In order to run for a national delegate position, a person must be elected as a delegate at all three levels of the three-tiered system (precinct caucus, county convention, state convention) as well as attend each level; therefore, any person elected as a delegate without having attended a precinct caucus will be ineligible to run for any national delegate position.