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This page presents, in two formats, the footnotes and appendices for resolutions included in the Resolutions Committee’s report on draft texts.
Alternatively, you can find footnotes and appendices for each resolution below.
Resolution Directing Democrats Abroad (DA) to include Veterans and Military Family Members under Representation Goals when electing delegates under future Delegate Selection Plans (DSPs)
1 “Representation goals” as defined here is intended to mirror the definition and description of the representation goals mentioned in the 2020 DA DSP (Section VII – Affirmative Action), viewable here:
2 Examples of barriers to voting faced by veterans and military families include, but are not limited to: the late arrival of overseas absentee ballots through no fault of the voter; the deportation of individuals who had voluntarily signed up with the military with the broken promise of gaining U.S. citizenship upon service; U.S. service-members from the District of Columbia or a U.S. Territory who have no voting representation in Congress, the inability to vote for service-members occupied in combat situations, civilian veterans abroad unable to utilize international postal services to the United States during the COVID-19 era, and denial of service-members’ opportunity to voice political and government opinions, among other issues.
3 On May 26, 2021, the Chairwoman of the DNC’s Veterans and Military Families Council, Jan Donatelli, informed the resolution author of her full support for Democrats Abroad including veterans and military families within its next and all future DSPs. Evidence of this communication is available upon request from any member of the Democratic Party.
Resolution to Catalogue Our “Standing Resolutions”
* If this resolution passes, I recognize that creating work for other volunteers (when everyone is a volunteer) can be a crummy thing to do and I would of course volunteer myself to also be on this Standing Resolutions review team; but I also expect that others with past Resolutions experience and Wiki experience may naturally wish to weigh in on or lead this effort.