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Democrats on Saturday elected Jeff Jackson to represent Mecklenburg County as the new District 37 state senator.

The 31-year-old assistant district attorney replaces former state Sen. Dan Clodfelter, a Charlotte Democrat who resigned last month after being tapped to succeed former Mayor Patrick Cannon, who was arrested in March on federal corruption charges.

A total of 49 Democrats voted; arcane party rules determine the number of voters.

Jackson will not only serve the remainder of Clodfelters current term, but take his place on the November ballot where he will run unopposed for a full two-year term.

I have huge shoes to fill, Jackson said after the election at Charlottes Little Rock AME Zion Church. Dan Clodfelter is one of the steadiest public servants Mecklenburg County has ever had. Im honored to be selected. Its going to be a wonderful opportunity to serve, hopefully, millions across the state who are hurting.

On the second ballot, Jackson got 25 votes. Innkeeper Billy Maddalon, who served briefly on the Charlotte City Council, got 21 votes and former school board member Amelia Stinson-Wesley of Pineville got three.

East Charlotte activist Darrell Bonapart was eliminated in the first ballot with only one vote.

Choked with emotion after the final results were announced, Jackson told Democrats gathered in the church, We had a truly exceptional field of candidates, and it was an honor to be in the running.

Robin Bradford, chair of the Mecklenburg County Democratic Party, said after the election that Democrats needed to support each other and work together.

Commenting on Saturdays election process, she said it was done very effectively, efficiently and it was transparent.

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WASHINGTON (AP) The Democratic National Committee's rulemaking body is recommending a 2016 presidential voting schedule that begins with the Iowa caucuses on Feb. 1 and follows with voting that month in New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina.

Under that calendar, Iowa retains its first-to-vote status while New Hampshire continues to hold the nation's first primary. The full DNC is expected to decide on the details of the calendar in August.

The Democrats' rules and bylaws committee met Friday in Washington. Its proposed calendar sticks closely to the framework laid out by the Republican National Committee. The GOP plan allows for those four states to vote in February but doesn't specify dates.

Democrats recommended that the New Hampshire primary be held on Feb. 9, the Nevada caucuses no earlier than Feb. 20, and the South Carolina primary on Feb. 27. Other states would be allowed to hold their contests from March 1 through the second Tuesday in June.

The recommendation hardly carves in stone the 2016 schedule. In the past two presidential election cycles, the major parties have scheduled the early contests for February but then allowed them to take place in January after such states as Florida and Michigan violated the party's rules and moved up their voting.

"You never know what you're going to get into in the pressure of an election season," committee co-chairman James Roosevelt Jr. said.

The committee discussed allowing people to participate without being physically present in Iowa's caucuses, the precinct-level political meetings held on a winter evening. Nothing on the issue was decided.

The Iowa caucuses, which have launched presidential voting for more than 30 years and are operated by the parties rather than state election officials, have come under increasing criticism because they include only those who attend a specific meeting. Democrats in the state are investigating whether the state party could allow more people to participate, including voters stationed out of state with the military or confined to hospitals or nursing homes.

"Our goal is to increase participation but maintain the spirit of the caucuses," Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Scott Brennan said.

The Democratic caucuses require participants to form groups of candidate supporters. Supporters of candidates who receive less than 15 percent support in an individual precinct disperse, giving other supporters the chance to argue for their support.

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