On December 9 the Democratic Party’s Unity Reform Commission released some recommendations for changing future Democratic presidential selection procedures. The number of superdelegates would be reduced by 60%. Furthermore, most of the remaining superdelegates would be required to vote for the candidate who had won the popular vote in that superdelegate’s jurisdiction. Only Democratic members of Congress, Governors, former Presidents, and a handful of others would retain the power to vote for any candidate.
The Commission also made recommendations about caucuses: the number of votes received by each presidential candidate must be tallied; and absentee voters must be allowed.
Finally, the Commission recommended that the Democratic Party work to persuade all presidential primary states with partisan registration to let voters change their party affiliation as late as primary election day. However, the Commission did not recommend letting independent voters vote in Democratic presidential primaries. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the news that the recommendations have been released. The Commission’s web page doesn’t yet have the text of the recommendations; the information in this post was gathered from various news stories.
Abolish the whole evil rotted mess of the HACK oligarchs.
IE – send ALL of the party HACK stuff to the polisci dumpster
— along with divine right of kings, slavery, etc.
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1. Uniform definition of Elector-Voter in the USA.
2. ONE election day.
3. Ballot access via equal nominating petitions / filing fees
4. PR and nonpartisan AppV – pending Condorcet math.
Difficult only for commission HACKS.
I fail to see why there should be any super-delegates period, except I know the party has them to make sure there’s never a leftist nominee who isn’t owned by big business and the war profiteers sufficiently. Their version of “unity” has always been to tell leftists and progressives to shut up, vote for their centrists, or else we’ll get Trump in 2020, and that’s never going to work on so many of us.
http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96323
more info on the Donkey commission machinations.
https://democrats.org/page/unity-reform-commission
URC WEBSITE – 12/9 STUFF NOT YET LISTED
Meh. I’m fine with it. It’s a start.
Has the Statist Leftist Progressive Party been formed yet ??? –
as if the communist / donkey parties are not statist enough ???
If a state primary chooses its delegates by proportional representation, how would the superdelegates be apportioned? Would they all be required to vote for the overall winner?