The Democratic National Committee (DNC) voted Monday to void the results of gun control activist David Hogg’s election as one of its vice chairs.
Following the credentials committee’s decision that the vice chair election had not followed proper parliamentary procedures, it will bring the vote to the DNC’s full body of members to decide whether or not to call a new election for Hogg’s vice chair seat and the seat of another DNC vice chair, Malcolm Kenyatta. The credentials committee’s ruling comes after Kalyn Free, a Native American attorney whom Hogg defeated in February to win his role as a vice chair, challenged the results of the election, claiming she lost a “fatally flawed election that violated the DNC Charter and discriminated against three women of color candidates,” as Semafor first reported.
“Today, the DNC took its first steps to remove me from my position as Vice Chair At-Large,” Hogg wrote in a statement. “While this vote was based on how the DNC conducted its officers’ elections, which I had nothing to do with, it is also impossible to ignore the broader context of my work to reform the party which loomed large over this vote.”
