Since the delegates won’t be in Milwaukee, voting at the 2020 Democratic Convention will be done by state, and by email:
Jason Rae, the Secretary of the Democratic National Committee, informed all certified delegates in a letter on Friday that voting on convention business will take place from August 3-15, with each delegate receiving a ballot specifically tailored to the delegate via “individualized and series identifiers.” …“Given the pandemic, the (Democratic National Convention Committee) has developed a voting system that will allow convention delegates to safely and securely cast ballots for all required votes. Each delegate will be sent an individualized ballot with unique identifiers via email,” reads Rae’s letter. “During the voting period, each certified delegate will receive a ballot and directions for completing and returning the ballot electronically.”
The process, according to the letter, will work like this: A delegate will fill out their ballot, which will includes questions about the Democratic platform and the party’s nominee, and send it to their state’s Democratic Party. Once a state party has all the ballots from their delegation, the state delegation’s chair “will submit a tally sheet to the Secretary’s Office that formally records the number of votes cast on each item of convention business,” Rae’s letter reads. The votes will be counted all at once on August 15, not as they come in. – CNN
Can we trust the state parties????
Don’t know, but we have always relied on the state delegations to count the delegations votes and then report them. And, in most states, the state party has been the one counting the votes for the election of delegates. So if they were going to stack the deck, they have already had the opportunity to do so.