DALLAS – Democrats all over North Texas are getting ready for a big day Saturday.

District conventions, beginning early Saturday morning, are round two of the party's nomination process and dozens of delegates remain up for grabs.

"I've been making jokes with people, you know they're tired,” Darlene Ewing, Dallas Democratic Chairwoman said smiling. “I say this is democracy in action. It's not democracy that's boring."

At the party headquarters near Fair Park, organizers are preparing for the little known senatorial district conventions on Saturday.

It’s another complex part of the party’s nomination process.

Put simply, Texas gets a total of 228 delegates for the National Democratic Convention.

Already, 161 of them were split between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the March 4th primary.

The fight for the final 67 begins at the conventions in the morning.

Here's how it supposed to work in Dallas tomorrow: 16,000 Democrats will get together and basically elect a group to go to the state party convention in June. That group from Dallas, along with Democrats from all across Texas, will then decide how to split the state’s remaining 67 delegates between Obama and Clinton.

Some worry Saturday's conventions will end in confusion like the caucuses did earlier this month.

Ewing hoped not saying there are only a five locations this time, unlike 695 polling precincts on the March 4th primary.

But those involved complain some convention locations have recently been moved after participants were notified.

Plus, conventions, unlike the caucuses, will be handled by experienced party leaders at much larger locations, Ewing added.

But, thousands participating Saturday have never experienced conventions before; a piece of Democracy still new to most Democrats.

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