IV. RULES GOVERNING THE PLATFORM

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2 caucuses, conventions, and committees will also endeavor to include citizens of all national origins, ethnic identities, religions, sexual orientations, gender identities, and disabilities. 3. Ballots shall be written and in the form provided by the Iowa Democratic Party. Ballots shall be kept for one (1) year. 4. A Rules and Nominations Committee member shall monitor all elections. IV. RULES GOVERNING THE PLATFORM A. The platform must contain a Statement of Principles and a Statement of Issues. The Constitution of the Iowa Democratic Party requires the Platform Committee to provide a Report representing the work of the Committee in the Call to Convention which is made available to the delegation prior to the convening of the Convention. The individual planks that comprise the Statement of Issues shall be consecutively numbered with the numbers NOT restarting with each Section. The public will be allowed to comment on the Platform and additional planks shall be considered by the Platform Committee so long as the following Rules are followed. 1. Delegates to the Convention wishing to add a plank to the platform must present the new plank, legibly written or typed, on the form provided in the Call to Convention, and with 30 signatures of delegates elected to the State Convention or alternates seated in place of missing delegates no later than 8:30 A.M. the morning of the State Convention. B. The Platform Committee will determine which planks are debatable though a delegate to the State Convention shall have the right to petition the Platform Committee to rule that a given plank is debatable by providing to the Platform Committee Chair the signatures of 30 delegates elected to the State Convention or alternates seated in place of missing delegates no later than 8:30 A.M. the morning of the State Convention. C. The Platform Committee shall meet, at or near the Convention site at 8:00 A.M. to consider the platform debate petitions and the petitions to include new planks. This will be an open meeting. D. Upon adjournment of the Platform Committee meeting the morning of the Convention, the Secretary of the Platform Committee shall cause to be posted any additional planks adopted by the Platform Committee that morning. This will be posted no later than Noon. Additional planks adopted by the Platform Committee shall be numbered consecutively, beginning with the next number available following the last number of the planks published in the Platform Report published in the Call to Convention. E. Seated delegates to the State Convention shall determine which planks are included in the final Iowa Democratic Party Platform by voice vote in the following manner:

3 1. The Presiding officer of the Convention at the time the Platform is taken up at the Convention shall move the adoption of the Platform in Sections starting with the Statement of Principles, then each Section of the Statement of Issues. 2. Prior to voting on a given Section, the Presiding Officer shall ask if there is a motion to remove a particular plank in that Section for separate consideration. a. If no delegate rises to make such a motion, the Presiding Officer shall ask a member of the Platform Committee for a motion to approve the Section under consideration and a second shall not be required. b. If a delegate rises to make a motion to remove a plank in a Section for separate consideration, they shall do so in the following manner:: i. First name, Last Name a delegate from County moves that plank number XX be removed for separate consideration from this section. ii. A second shall be required. iii. The Presiding Officer shall repeat the motion and ask for a voice vote of the delegation who approve of removing the plank for separate consideration and then those who oppose the separate consideration of the plank. A simple majority shall decide the question. iv. If a simple majority of the delegation vote to consider that plank separately, the Presiding Officer shall proceed to ask a member of the Platform Committee to move the approval of that plank and no second is required. v. Following the vote on the inclusion of that plank, the Presiding Officer will proceed with the Section under consideration. 3. The Presiding Officer shall ask for those in favor to voice their approval and then for those not in favor to voice their disapproval of the inclusion of that Section in the Platform of the Iowa Democratic Party for the next two years. If, in the opinion of the Presiding Officer, the number of Delegates voting in favor of including that Section in the Platform exceeds the number voting not to include that Section in the Platform, then that Section shall be included in the published Platform of the IDP. 4. After all planks are considered for inclusion in the Platform, the delegates shall cast a ballot to determine the priorities of the Iowa Democratic Party for the ensuing two years. The ballot shall be cast by plank number. The Chair of the Rules and Nominations Committee will explain the ballot process. F. Rules governing debate of the platform. 1. Debatable Planks: Those planks deemed to be debatable by the Platform Committee shall be debated by the delegates of the Convention. Delegates may petition the Platform Committee to debate an individual plank by turning in the completed attached form and the signatures of 30 elected delegates or seated alternates by 8:30 A.M. the morning of the Convention. 2. Minority Reports of the Platform Committee shall be automatically debatable. They shall be listed as a sub-lettered plank to the plank the majority of the Platform Committee voted for inclusion in the Platform Report. For example, if the Platform

4 Committee has voted to include plank 18, the minority report related to plank 18 would be listed as 18a. Only one of those planks may be approved by the Convention, thus a vote for plank 18 would be a vote against plank 18a. 3. Debate on the Debatable planks of the Issues Section of the Platform will follow the rules outlined in Article II, section I, with the exception that the Platform Committee Chair or his/her designee will move adoption of the portion of the Platform Report in question and a second is not required. The representative of the Platform Committee shall have one (1) minute to explain the portion of the Platform being debated and the Platform Committee s position for approving the plank. a. Debate on any plank shall be limited to six minutes and shall be divided equally between alternating proponents and opponents in statements that do not exceed one minute each. b. The Platform Committee Chair or their designee shall present the debatable issues. 4. Immediately upon completion of debate, the Chair or their designee shall call for a voice vote to determine whether the plank passes or fails.. 5. The debated plank must receive at least a majority of the votes cast to pass. E. Rules governing the prioritization of the approved planks. 1. A ballot included with each delegate s registration materials will be used for the prioritization of the platform. Only those planks that ultimately receive a majority of votes in favor are eligible for inclusion in the Party platform and will be prioritized. 2. Delegates may select three (3) Priority Planks. Ballots with more than three (3) planks selected as priorities will be spoiled and not counted. 3. Delegates will complete the platform prioritization ballot by writing in the plank number of each of the three planks they believe to be the greatest priority for the Iowa Democratic Party. 4. The planks will be ranked from top to bottom which will allow for separation of adopted planks into categories of Priorities and Long Term Goals. Those planks so designated as Priorities will be announced to the convention. A final copy of the Platform, including the Statement of Principles and the Statement of Issues, will be available at the Iowa Democratic Party Website, Those delegates who do not have access to the website may send a written request to the offices of the Iowa Democratic Party. V. NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF STATE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION CHAIR, DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR STATE AUDITOR, AND MALE DNC MEMBER

5 PLATFORM COMMITTEE Chair James Sutton Vice, Chair Sue Seedorff-Keninger, Government Parliamentarian David McFarland, Labor, Chair Secretary Carl Olsen Jim Arthur, Government David Binder, Education Mark Challis, Health, Chair James Craver, Government Kelly Dan, Agriculture Ann Distelhorst, Government Jim Eliason, Health Al Flyr, Veterans Curtis Goddard, International Araceli Goode, Government John Hackley, Government Brian Jobes, Agriculture Melinda Jones, Education Andrew Kieffert, Government, Chair Ed Klatte, International Max Knauer, Health Veronica Lack, Agriculture Joe Laird, Labor Tom LaPointe, Labor Dean Mayne, Government Carl McPherson, Health Joe Michalec, Veterans John Nies, International Stephen Nilsen, Health, Secretary Kathleen O'Leary, Health John Olsen, Education, Secretary Karen Perdue, Government, Secretary Chris Petersen, Agriculture Janice Peterson, Government Jacquelyn Pope, International, Secretary Ricardo Pous, Agriculture, Secretary Michelle Ray-Michalec, Labor Justine Retz, Agriculture Clark Rieke, Agriculture Dennis Roseman, International, Chair Robin Roseman, Agriculture, Vice Chair Marcos Rubenstein, International Mary Sand, Government Kelly Sargent, Health, Vice Chair Karl Schilling, Labor Judy Stevens, Agriculture, Secretary Dale Struecker, Labor Thalia Sutton, Education, Chair John Tenikat, Government Sheryl Tenikat, Agriculture, Chair Leonard Tinker, Government Ruth Walker, Education Donna Winburn, Agriculture David Wozniak Labor, Secretary