The D.C. Democratic Party on Sept. 3 selected longtime lesbian activist and D.C. statehood advocate Barbara Helmick as one of the District’s three Democratic presidential elector nominees.
Helmick’s nomination came a short time after the chair of the D.C. Republican Party, in consultation with the Trump presidential campaign, named gay Republican activist and D.C.
Republican Committee treasurer Michael McHugh as one of the city’s three Republican presidential elector nominees. Under the U.S.
Constitution, 538 presidential electors from all 50 states and the District of Columbia become part of the Electoral College that meets following U.S.