DNC finds FL primary non-compliant
From Politico:
The Democratic Party has taken a swipe at the nation’s fourth biggest state, stripping Florida of all of its ‘08 delegates as punishment for jumping the gun with its primary, which is forcing other states to crowd Christmas in the quest to be first.
Under a vote taken moments ago by a powerful committee of the Democratic National Committee, if things don’t change, Florida’s primary on Jan. 29 will be a beauty context – the delegates won’t count toward the party’s presidential nomination.
Florida officials complained they were being “disenfranchised,” but the DNC strongly pushes back against that contention, since it has rules that Florida decided not to follow.
This is the party’s way of trying to stop the crazy domino effect of states moving their nominating contests earlier and earlier, which causes OTHER states to go earlier and earlier.
The DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee voted nearly unanimously that Florida’s plan is non-compliant with party rules, and gave the state 30 days to fix it. Otherwise, the state will lose 100 percent of its delegates.
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August 25th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
Seems to me the easy way to fix this problem would be to designate an election day for primary elections and make it be the same day for Democrats as well as Republicans. Just like the real election day. No fuss no muss. Something like the first teusday in March.