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Happening in atlanta, georgia. and donna brazile is waiting to bring up the candidates and waiting on the stage to make the announcement of the outcome of the second ballot and she was waiting for them to come to the stage. both labor secretary perez and minnesota representative keith ellison, and we will see what happened among others potentially, and we will see what happens in the second ballot, and the first ballot was inconclusive, because they did not have a majority. during that vote, if you were with us, tom perez, the former secretary of labor had 213.5. he missed it by half of a vote...

Chairman of the dnc. let's get to ryan nobles. tom perez being the new chairman. tell us what happened here. >> reporter: this was a pretty dramatic day here in atlanta on this second ballot, tom perez comes in with a victory. perez collected 235 votes on that second ballot to keep ellison's 200 but on the first ballot, brianna, where tom perez collected 213.5 votes falling short of the threshold needed to win the election but on the second ballot, perez was able to bring together the coalition necessary to win. what's sbesiinteresting though w this is playing out in the room and something to ...

>> future once so bright will soon face much darker days. martin savidge, cnn, manchester, ohio. >> thank you so much, martin. back to atlanta now and the vote for a new chairperson for the democratic national committee. let's check in with ryan nobles because the first round of balloting has taken place but is there a final count, a new chairperson? >> reporter: collected 213.5 votes. the threshold to win was 214 votes. so he falls basically a half a vote short. keith ellison collected 200 votes. so as close as you could possibly come to not winning on the first ballot somewhere tom perez has...