The Electoral Committee of DSA-LA exists to help the chapter gain the power and knowledge necessary to work towards and realize its various goals using the existing power of the state as channeled through elected office.

There are many ways to build power and challenge the status quo – and electoral work surely has its limitation — but a reality in this country is that many people understand and conceptualize power through electoral politics. Given this reality, DSA-LA sees electoral organizing as a key strategy for us as socialists to elect our own representatives and pressure other elected officials at all levels of local government to be accountable to working people.