Florida: Still the Center of Political Snafus

The hilarious debacle that is the Florida primaries continues this week, with lawmakers meeting to work up a preliminary plan to conduct a make-up primary. This is necessary because Florida thought it would be a great idea to hold their primaries before the agreed-upon dates, regardless of the fact that they were told the votes would not count.
Florida Democrats are now scrambling to come up with a solution to the problems that they caused, and this week they struck up a proposal for a plan that may involve mail-in ballots, outsourcing the election responsibilities, or holding a new primary with just 50 polling places rather than the standard several thousand polling places. Different combinations of these methods have also been proposed and have received a mostly negative reception.
Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd may have had it right when he suggested that the delegates from both states be divided down the middle, with half going to each candidate. After all, the governors of both states were warned and given 30 days to change their primary dates. That they decided to go ahead with the early votes indicates that neither state was worried about disenfranchising voters back in January - why should they be rewarded for their bad behavior by getting the chance to re-do the very vote they willingly ruined?
Posted: March 13th, 2008 under 2008 Elections, American Politics, Democrats, Political News, Political Opinion.
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