The Michigan House of Representatives will meet on Monday, November 26, and may pass a bill that alters whose names should be on the Democratic presidential primary. If no action is taken, leading Democrats such as John Edwards and Barack Obama will not permit their names to be on the Michigan Democratic presidential primary ballot. The legislature has a bill to put contenders on the ballot automatically, unless they swear they are not running for president. If that bill passed, the list of candidates would grow.

The uncertainty over which names will be on the ballot is preventing Michigan elections officials from printing the ballots, and already the state has violated federal law by not preparing and mailing such ballots to overseas absentee voters. There is still a possibility that the Michigan Democratic Party will decide to use a caucus and cancel its primary. If a caucus is used, no one knows what the date will be.