 We can't allow it, she wrote. I'm asking you to ask the DNC to stop pushing for an early vote. There's an information vacuum. An information vacuum, said Chris Dempsey, a longtime Democrat activist in Massachusetts who's working to inform delegates of their role at the convention. The delegates we talked to have heard very little from the state parties of the DNC. They're secretly doing this. Somebody leaked it out. They're trying to get the chairman of their parties. It's like the Communist Party.