The number is calculated by a formula giving 1 delegate for every 25 DFL votes in that precinct in the most recent election.I'm curious as to how the determination is made that the city DFL convention is going to consist of 3,333 delegates elected from the precincts. In other words: why that number and not, say, 1,000, or even 500?
So there were 4443 delegate spots available before the precinct caucuses. Attendees there filled 3303 (not 3333) of them, so that became the maximum number of delegates for the city convention.
This formula is a standard one, that has been used statewide for many years to allocate DFL delegate spots to precincts.
At the City DFL Central Committee meeting last December, there was an attempt to change this to 1 delegate per 50 votes, and another to base this on votes for City candidates, not President, etc. Both of these would likely have resulted in a reduced number of delegate spots. (Both had some support from City DFL officers, the ones who had to actually put on these conventions.) But the central committee voted to stay with the 1 per 25 formula, and thus create the largest democratic convention in the world.
Tim Bonham, Ward 12, Standish-Ericsson
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