A challenge to the procedure used in the February Democratic National Committee (DNC) vice chair election has led to the overturning of David Hogg and Malcolm Kenyatta’s wins. The challenge was filed by Oklahoma Democratic Committeewoman Kalyn Free, who claimed that the way the voting was conducted gave an unfair advantage to male candidates.
Free argued that merging the final two rounds of voting for vice chair, which left only Hogg and Kenyatta as the remaining male candidates, went against the DNC’s rule requiring gender balance on its executive committee. She suggested that if each position had been voted on separately, the results might have been different. After a three-hour meeting, the DNC Credentials Committee agreed that the election had flaws in its process and recommended canceling the results, calling the election “incomplete.”
