Reference: http://www.alaskademocrats.org/adp_dsp_04.pdf

Saturday 20 March 2004: Democratic Party Caucuses meet in each precinct. Each Precinct Caucus chooses delegates to the Legislative District Conventions based on presidential preference.

• "The Precinct Caucus chooses the precinct's delegates to the Legislative District Convention in which the precinct is located. Such Legislative District delegates from the precinct are allocated to presidential contenders in proportion to the percentage of the support each candidate received at the Precinct Caucus- a mandatory 15 percent threshold being required for such allocation."

District Conventions meet in each Legislative District. Each Legislative District Convention chooses delegates to the Alaska State Democratic Convention based on presidential preference.

• "These District Conventions choose the Legislative District's delegates to the Alaska State Democratic Convention. Such State Convention delegates from the Legislative District are to be allocated to presidential contenders in proportion to the percentage of the support each candidate received at the Legislative District Convention- a mandatory 15 percent threshold being required for such allocation."

Note: The Presidential preferences of the delegates may not be known until the Convention Chair counts the sub-caucuses at the State Convention.

Saturday 22 May 2004: The Alaska State Democratic Convention convenes. The State Convention chooses Alaska's 13 Pledged delegates to the Democratic National Convention. A mandatory 15 percent threshold is required in order for a presidential contender to be allocated National Convention delegates at either the congressional district or statewide level.

The Alaska State Convention chooses 8 district delegates, such choice reflecting the support for the presidential contenders among the delegates to the State Convention from each Legislative District.

In addition, 5 delegates are to be allocated to presidential contenders based the support for the presidential contenders in the State Convention as a whole.

• 3 at-large National Convention delegates
• 2 Pledged PLEOs

The remaining 5 National Convention delegates consist of

• 4 Unpledged PLEO delegates:
• 4 Democratic National Committee members
• 0 Members of Congress (0 Senators and 0 Representatives)
• 0 Governors
• 0 Distinguished Party Leaders
• 1 Unpledged "add-on" (selected at the state convention).

These 5 delegates and will go to the Democratic National Convention officially "Unpledged".