(plus territories) that Clinton supporting leaders and officials in FL and MI thumbed their nose at by breaking the primary schedule and creating the mess for the party and helping the GOP in the process. Had they stuck by the schedule, FL and MI would've played a positive and meaningful role in the nomination process. Blame the creators of this mess for the mess.
As the rules stand, FL and MI won't get counted and any sort of change in rules after voting began will have to be acceptable to and approved by both campaigns.
Please see my own modest proposal for resolving MI here.
agreed, both implicitly (by running the primaries scheduled and organized by the DNC) and explicitly (eg, when HRC said in IA that MI and FL won't count), that FL and MI delegationg will not be seated.
wouldn't it have been nice if Strom Thurmond flip flopped on voting rights too?
This isn't an issue of voting rights, but since you're trying hard to make it one, you should know that a lot of people didn't show up to participate in the beauty contest in FL and non-contest in MI because they were told that their votes would not count. They will be disenfranchised if the flawed results are counted as reflecting true voter intent.
Did you know that Dems had fewer voters than the Reps in both FL and MI whereas they out-polled Reps by large margins in almost every other state? That's a proof that tons of voters did not show up because they were told (even HRC said that they were not going to count) that FL and MI were not going count.
The real issue is that Clinton supporting Democrats in those states (Granholm, Stabenow, Levin, Geller etal) joined the Republicans to mess with the process designed by the DNC and abided by 48 other states that were scheduled to go before and after FL and MI. Those states will be disenfranchised too by allowing the renegade and flawed results to count as they are.
Furthermore, in MI, exit polls showed that the vote split would've been C:46 and O:35 and Obama would've done even better if he had been able to run and campaign there.
