FAQs

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You can find your precinct using the NC Board of Elections Voter Lookup Tool.

Precincts are required to meet once a year for an Organizational Meeting (per the NCDP Plan of Organization)

Precinct Organization is the foundation of grassroots organizing. It all starts here with you and your neighbors. Organizing your precinct gives your community power and a voice in the Party and provides tools and resources to get your neighbors out to vote!

Certify the meeting

• Verify that at least 5 registered Democrats from the precinct are in attendance

Elect officers in odd-numbered years | (List of Duties)

• Chair: The main point of contact for precinct volunteers, organizes Get Out the Vote activities in the precinct, serves as the site captain for Election Day poll greeting, becomes a voting member of the County Executive Committee
• Vice Chair: Second point of contact for precinct volunteers, organizes Get Out the Vote activities in the precinct, becomes a voting member of the County Executive Committee
• Secretary/Treasurer: Keeps minutes for official business meetings, does not actually do anything related to being a Treasurer (most precincts do not handle their own money because it’s a pain to set up and manage)

Elect delegates

• Each delegate represents a percentage of that precinct’s Democratic population
• The number of delegates is based on the number of Democratic votes for Governor in the last election
• Delegates vote on County leadership and representation on the State Executive Committee
• County delegates become Congressional delegates become State delegates all the way to the National Convention
• Unorganized Precincts leave those delegate votes on the table unused

Submit resolutions

• What’s in the Party Platform starts as a Resolution at your precinct meeting
• Here’s the 2020 report for Wake County
• How to write a Resolution and what happens after you do!

Organize and lead volunteer Get Out the Vote efforts in their local area. Becoming a precinct officer is an avenue to help get representation for your community’s voices and ideas.

The elected Chair and Vice Chair become voting members of the County Executive Committee, which means they have a say in who gets elected to leadership positions in the Party.

In addition, organized precincts will elect delegates to the County Convention (held once a year) where they will elect County Party leadership, vote on resolutions, and elect representatives to the State Executive Committee.

• The Officers of the Small County Executive Committee function as the CEC when the full CEC is not in session
• Previously known as “The Board”
• Sometimes referred to as the “Small CEC”
• Meets on the Fourth Monday of every month

The Small CEC is made up of:

• Elected members of the county’s Executive Council
• Presidents of county chapters of statewide organizations

• Elected Officers of the county Party
• Elected at the County Convention (odd-numbered years)
• Serve a two year term
• View the Current Council

Executive Council Officers:

• Chair
• First Vice Chair – Precinct and District Operations
• Second Vice Chair – Training and Education
• Third Vice Chair – Media and Communications
• Treasurer – Financial Operations
• Secretary – Meeting Notices and Minutes
• Regional Vice Chairs – Apex, Cary/Morrisville, Raleigh, Wake

• The governing body for the state Democratic Party
• Sometimes refered to as the “SEC”
• County SEC delegation elected every two years at the County Convention and at CEC meetings to fill term vacancies
• Meets quarterly
• Elects the State Executive Leadership
• Votes on updates to the Party Platform and Plan of Organization
• Members serve a two year term
• View the Current Wake SEC Delegation

The State Executive Committee is made up of:

• Elected members of the county’s SEC delegation
• Members of the State Executive Council
• Elected and Appointed Officers of the SEC
• Ex-officio Officers and Members
• Congressional District Chairs
• County Chairs