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Originally Posted by xian  If tomorrow the Democratic party decides to take the Dallas phone book... throw a dart at it and pick the name it hits as their candidate for President... no one has been disenfranchised. Neither is the stripping of delegates from MI or FL disenfranchising anyone. Franchise guarantess the right to vote for President it does not gaurantee a right to have one's vote counted in a party's process of selecting their candidate for that office. |
If that was normal party procedure, I would agree. The party certainly CAN do that. However, the party allows a (semi-)democratic process to determine the candidate. As a result of their respective state governments, those voters will be excluded from the normal process.
The whole thing is really very silly--who cares who has a primary or caucus first--I'd rather have those voters be able to count in deciding the party's candidate.