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Welcome to the 80 Assembly District Project

Introduction

In January, Democrats in each of the eighty Assembly Districts (ADs) of California will come together to elect twelve delegates to the Democratic State Central Committee, the body that comprises the California Democratic Party. Anyone registered in their Assembly District as a Democrat in time for the last election (10/23/06) is eligible to run as a delegate or vote in these elections. Typically, these elections have not been widely publicized and relatively few Democrats have participated in them. Furthermore, until this year, the times and rules governing the elections varied from Assembly District to Assembly District.

The aim of this site it to help Democrats in California understand and participate in the process of electing delegates in the upcoming Assembly District elections. We hope this site will make the process of electing delegates to the state party more transparent and more comprehensible to those unused to participating in the institutional activities of the California Democratic Party.

Furthermore, we hope this site will serve both candidates and the pool of voters by providing a more robust platform to disseminate relevant information about those running to represent the grassroots of the California Democratic Party.

How to use this site

The first thing you will want to do is to click on your Assembly District in the table below. If you are unsure of your AD, you can use the the California Democratic Party's Elected Officials Search tool. If you would like to be a candidate, please also note the Senate District and Congressional District numbers as well as that of your Assembly District.

Once you click on the Assembly District in the table below, you will see a page with:

• A map of the Assembly District
• A set of instructions for candidates to add their information to the website
• We will also include the time, date, and location of the elections when they become available.

So go ahead and click on your Assembly District: