Voter's Rights

Back around the first of January both parties had about an equal number of candidates when they lined up for their primary votes and caucuses. Most of those candidates had been circulating themselves for the previous year but after January they officially started their campaigning. Both of the two political parties have jockied and gerrymandered their districts and their national committees until they resemble the hierarchy of the trade unions, rank and file voters don't mean much to them in their quest to install the choices of the party bosses in the office. The GOP has their winner take all delegate system, the candidate with the most votes wins the candidacy in that state, the rest lose out. The current Democratic Process is a perfect representation of the Democrat's Philosophy, they use the proportional delegate system. Hold a state election and everyone wins, there are no losers, they don't want to offend someone or hurt their feelings if they didn't actually win the election by getting the most votes, everyone wins some delegates. Unless those less known and under funded candidates are wealthy and/or owned by one or more special interests they are forced to drop out. The system for both parties favors the states with the earliest voting and disenfranchises all those who follow. With up to 6 months or more of campaigning it's hard to select a candidate only on their merits and do it all from what's left over after those early voting states and the party bosses have selected the candidates for the rest of the nation. The Democrats don't feel that the voters are smart enough to make their own choices, maybe they are right, so let's have the party insider's to vote the party line even if the voters have spoken. At the Democratic convention, some delegates are pledged to a particular candidate based on primary voting and on caucuses. In addition there are Super Delegates. Super delegates are not pledged to a candidate, but have the responsibility of voting for the candidate they think will best represent the party in the general election. The primary process for the Republicans is different and does not depend on Super Delegates. It's what those Super Delegates want that counts. Super Delegates are powerful or prominent members of the Democratic Party who typically hold elected or other offices. They can choose or change the candidate they vote for at any point until the vote takes place at the Democratic National Convention in Denver this August. There are some 794 superdelegates. They will account for approximately one-fifth of the delegate vote and will almost certainly have the power to sway the nomination. Each technically has the power of thousands of Democratic voters who are free to vote for whomever they choose at the convention. Their votes could decide the nomination. Super Delegates, including Democratic governors, members of Congress and national party leaders, make up 20 percent of the 4,049 total delegates. A candidate needs 2,025 to win the nomination. The Democrat party believes in keeping those Super Delegates unbiased and not influenced by the candidates, which is why Super Delegates Get Campaign Cash I'll bet you expected them to vote for free, didn't you? It's because they have to work twice as hard, they vote once in their regular primary election like the rest of us citizens then they get to vote as Super Delegate at the National convention, It is an exhausting process that voting twice !! But what about Florida and Michigan voters? Those states executed their Constitutional rights under their States Rights and First Amendment clauses, Howard Dean and the Democrat National Committee punished the voters of both states by disallowing their votes to stand in the primary election. IMHO the DNC is in violation of the United States Constitution. Article I. Section 4 The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Place of Chusing Senators. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by Law appoint a different Day. Article I. Section 5 Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide. Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behavior, and, with the Concurrence of two-thirds, expel a Member. Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal. Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting. Golly!!! I didn't see anything about either political parties national committes in those passages, did you? Article IV. Section 4 The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence. Amendment XIV 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State. Amendment XV 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Amendment XIX The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Amendment XXIV 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax. Amendment XXVI 1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age. So the Democrats don't want to hurt the feelings of their candidates, don't want to hurt the feelings of their delegates at the same time they want to preserve the super powers of the Super Delegates, while trampling all over the rights of the individual states and the citizens as guranteed under the United States Constitution. One of the Democrat's own fallen thinks this is perfectly well and good for the Demokcrazy of the nation. So the question is will they change the rules, that can be changed at any time, so Florida and Michigan can do a revote for the two remaining candidates, or will they be disenfranchised? Neither is fair to the States of Florida or Michigan nor their voters, nor is it a fair election outcome for the remaining 48 states who had to endure the weeding out process to get to the the final three candidates in both parties. What Howard Dean has done is criminal, but it feels good to the Democrats and all that matters is feelings, not results, not the Constitution and certainly not the security of the nation.