Article VI

Section 1: At large voting members status shall be granted to individuals meeting the following criteria:
1. The individual must be between the ages of fourteen (14) and not yet reached the age of thirty-six (36).
2. At least six (6) consecutive calendar months have passed since an individual attended his or her first State Caucus Meeting.
3. Of those six (6) consecutive calendar months an individual must maintain a minimum of a 66% attendance record at State Caucus Meetings.
4. Upon completion of six (6) consecutive calendar months with a minimum of a 66% attendance record an individual must receive a majority affirmative vote of present voting State Caucus Members to be granted at large voting member status.

Section 2: To remain an at large voting member of the State Caucus an individual must meet the following criteria:
1. The individual must be between the ages of fourteen (14) and not yet reached the age of thirty-six (36). Upon an individual’s 36th birthday, he or she will no longer be a Connecticut Young Democrat and will forfeit any voting rights previously granted.
2. A 66% attendance record at State Caucus Meetings must be maintained. An individual’s attendance record will be calculated at every State Caucus Meeting.
a. The last six calendar months, which will include the current meeting, will be examined to ensure at large voting members maintain a 66% attendance record.

Failure to maintain a 66% will result is the loss of at large voting member status. At large voting member status may be reinstated after an individual’s attendance record reached 66% again.

Section 3: If a State Caucus Meeting is canceled and not rescheduled or if no attendance is recorded at the meeting, the meeting will not be counted in the 66% attendance record calculation. The Secretary of the Connecticut Young Democrats is responsible for maintaining and accurate up to date record of State Caucus Meeting attendance. It is an individual’s responsibility to sign in at each meeting; failure to sign when an attendance sheet is present will be counted as a missed meeting.

Section 2: At the time of amendment adoption, non State Caucus Voting Members who have already achieved a 66% attendance record, beginning with February 2004 through to the present will automatically become at large voting members. Any individual who has attended a meeting prior to October 2004 but after February 2004, at large voting member attendance record will begin with the first meeting attended in 2004. Any individual attending his or her first meeting on or after October 2004 will follow at large voting member procedure outlined in Article VI Section 1 of the bylaws.

Section 3: Individuals that are Chapter Representative as outlined in Article 3, Section 3 of the Constitution or Executive Board Members as outlined in Article 5, Section 1 of the Constitution are already voting members of the State Caucus and are not eligible to obtain at large voting member status.

Section 4: At large voting members may serve as chapter representatives, but he or she may not cast a separate vote.