Of the people by the people and for the people! Well, except for you. Oh and you. What a country!
Once again, we hold a primary election (Florida) that doesn’t count. Can someone explain to me how it can be legal to tell all of the Americans(D) in the great state of Florida that they can vote but that their vote doesn’t count for beans because some government agency is mad at some other government agency for violating some obscure (I don’t know that for sure, actually) political rule? What happened to “every voice counts”? Doesn’t this seem, like, really illegal?
Sort of like the electoral college but that’s a rant for another day.
I’ve got mixed feelings on that. On the one hand, yeah, that really does suck that their votes don’t count, but on the other hand, hey, at least it’s the whole state instead of just certain parts of it.
I was somebody who did vote...and then found out my vote didn’t really even count. Of course, I hear that Hillary is going to try to see if she can get her delegates from those two states that she won. THe thing is...in Michigan on the democratic ballot she was really the only one on there since both Obama and Edwards pulled their names off the ballot due to the fact that Michigan didn’t follow primary rules. So is that really fair? Because I have a feeling if they had their names on the ballot there would’ve been a closer race. She may have still won, but who really knows?
It seems like the sort of thing that should be illegal, but it’s not. The political parties are allowed to define the rules for participation in their primaries and both Michigan and Florida violated those rules. The Democratic leadership in both states is working on the assumption that once the primaries are done that the DNC will decide to allow both state’s delegates to be seated in spite of vowing not to, but it’s a gamble that may not pay out.
The Republicans punished both states as well, but to a much lesser degree. In Michigan (where I live) they only threatened to ban half the state’s delegates and candidates weren’t barred from campaigning in the state.