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    The chair of the Iowa Democratic Party wrote a letter to the chair of the Democratic National Committee and co-chairs of the Rules and Bylaws Committee requesting consideration for a conditional waiver to hold their presidential primary contest in a pre-window period. The letter notes that two other states will likely need deadline extensions and may be unable to avoid losing their waivers. It argues that Iowa's new vote-by-mail process allows flexibility while complying with state law, and that small rural states like Iowa need to have a voice in the nominating process. The letter requests that a conditional waiver for Iowa be considered at the February RBC meeting.

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    The chair of the Iowa Democratic Party wrote a letter to the chair of the Democratic National Committee and co-chairs of the Rules and Bylaws Committee requesting consideration for a conditional waiver to hold their presidential primary contest in a pre-window period. The letter notes that two other states will likely need deadline extensions and may be unable to avoid losing their waivers. It argues that Iowa's new vote-by-mail process allows flexibility while complying with state law, and that small rural states like Iowa need to have a voice in the nominating process. The letter requests that a conditional waiver for Iowa be considered at the February RBC meeting.

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    IDP Letter To DNC RBC 1.6.23

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    The chair of the Iowa Democratic Party wrote a letter to the chair of the Democratic National Committee and co-chairs of the Rules and Bylaws Committee requesting consideration for a conditional waiver to hold their presidential primary contest in a pre-window period. The letter notes that two other states will likely need deadline extensions and may be unable to avoid losing their waivers. It argues that Iowa's new vote-by-mail process allows flexibility while complying with state law, and that small rural states like Iowa need to have a voice in the nominating process. The letter requests that a conditional waiver for Iowa be considered at the February RBC meeting.

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    5661 Fleur Drive

    Des Moines, IA 50321


    Phone: (515) 244-7292
    Fax: (515) 244-5051
    Email: info@iowademocrats.org

    To: Jaime Harrison, Chair, Democratic National Committee


    Jim Roosevelt, Jr. and Minyon Moore, Co-Chairs, Rules and Bylaws Committee

    From: Ross Wilburn, Chair, Iowa Democratic Party

    January 6, 2023

    Dear Chairman Harrison and Co-Chairs Moore and Roosevelt,

    Last month, the Rules and Bylaws Committee passed a calendar framework for the
    2024 presidential nominating calendar, but in all honesty, adjourned with nothing
    actually settled. As of yesterday’s deadline for submission of letters of intent, we are
    faced with a situation in which at least two states will require deadline extensions
    because they may be unable to meet the conditions necessary to avoid the rescission of
    their waivers to hold contests in the pre-window. 

    I write today to remind you that Iowa has been put in a position that makes it impossible
    to comply with our own state law, which has exactly no chance of being changed by our
    legislature. It is also important to note that no state situated in the Central or Mountain
    time zones is represented in the pre-window, and three of the five early window states
    that have been proposed were among the original 13. Small rural states like Iowa must
    have a voice in our Presidential nominating process. Democrats cannot forget about
    entire groups of voters in the heart of the Midwest without doing significant damage to
    the party for a generation. 

    The Iowa Democratic Party proposed historic changes to the Caucuses in its bid to seek
    a waiver. We recognized that the caucuses as they were no longer aligned with 21st
    century democracy, and that we had no alternative but to reimagine the Iowa Caucuses
    as a vote-by-mail state-party run contest. The process we proposed allowed flexibility as
    to the date while complying with Iowa law. We believe that Iowa can be an important
    part of the solution to an early nominating calendar by providing flexibility with its new
    process.

    Republicans in Iowa have already seized the opportunity to double down on their
    caucuses and feed the narrative that Democrats have turned their back on Iowa and
    rural America. Our own calendar remains in a state of uncertainty. The Iowa Democratic
    Party believes that, with two states apparently unable to meet the criteria set forth as
    conditions of a waiver, within the timeline set forth by this committee, we have a
    compelling case to be granted a conditional waiver for a pre-window contest. As a state
    party run contest, we retain the ultimate ability to tailor our contest to RBC rules and
    specifications and maintain a flexibility that states with state-run contests cannot. To that

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    5661 Fleur Drive
    Des Moines, IA 50321
    Phone: (515) 244-7292
    Fax: (515) 244-5051
    Email: info@iowademocrats.org

    end, we request consideration for a conditional waiver be considered at the February


    meeting of the RBC.

    Respectfully,

    Ross Wilburn
    Chair, Iowa Democratic Party

    www.iowademocrats.org facebook.com/iowademocrats twitter.com/iowademocrats

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