Information regarding the disagreement over the Michigan primary re-vote

[featherman]

particulars. This is information only. No need to flame.

It's my understanding (no link, sorry) that the hangup about settling the Michigan primary re-vote is a disagreement about whether the Democrats who crossed over to the GOP primary to screw up the GOP race should be allowed to vote in the new re-vote. Many did so because their own primary had been invalidated ahead of time.

The Clinton campaign wants these cross over voters to be barred from the new voting. The Obama campaign prefers that all registered Dems and Inds be allowed to vote in the new one. Once that issue is resolved, things should move forward.

I'm guessing that all registered Dems will be allowed in the end but not Inds and the re-vote will be a closed primary.

[Skwmom]

1. Nice message the Democrats are sending the independent voters in MI.

I guess they don't want their vote in the general election.

[BzaDem]

3. Hahaha -- like the other 10 states on Super Tuesday that (gasp) had closed primaries?

[papau]

2. Your proposed solution seems fair - Dems only vote.

[featherman]

4. Fair or not is a matter of conjecture - this is my guess about the eventual

outcome of the ongoing negotiations.

There may be a legal hurdle to this solution if the state has a law somewhere mandating that primaries must be open kind of like Florida had a law forbidding vote-by-mail elections.

I guess we'll see.

[papau]

5. State laws about party primaries have recently been shot down by the courts

[JorgeTheGood]

6. Don't think so ...

One person -- one vote.

[Johnny__Motown]

7. I dunno.....

How can you allow people who voted in the Repug primary to vote in the Dem one also? Nobody else gets to vote in both.

On the other hand how can you punish them for doing what was asked of them by other Dems (some on this site) to vote for Romney to delay McCain locking up the nomination? They were told no delegates were at stake in the Dem primary.


Someone is gonna get screwed no matter what.


I am starting to think a compromise will be reached without a do over election. Something like Obama gets all the Uncommitted delegates and all delegates are seated but only given 1/2 vote each. SDs from MI also only get 1/2 a vote each.