Section 4: Regional Affiliations

For the purposes of presidential primaries/caucuses, the states should be grouped as follows:

Eastern Region (1)
Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia and the District of Columbia.

Southern Region (2)
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

Midwestern Region (3)
Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

Western Region (4)
Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming and Guam.

A lottery will be held to determine which Region will begin the sequence of presidential primaries/caucuses in March _____. The other regions will follow in numerical order in April, May and June. In subsequent cycles, the first region to hold its primaries/caucuses shall move to the end and all other regions in the sequence shall move up accordingly.

Section 5: Rotation of the Date of the Presidential Primary/Caucus

In the presidential primary/caucus elections subsequent to the year ____, the date of the election shall be the first Tuesday of the month preceding the month of the most recent presidential primary/caucus election, except that if the most recent election was conducted on the first Tuesday of March the date of the election shall be the first Tuesday of June.