2008 Woodie Awards
Letter to the Editor: April 29
Issue date: 4/29/08 Section: Opinion
Editor,
This letter is in response to the articles covering the controversy surrounding the Michigan and Florida Democratic primaries.
Michigan and Florida defied the Democratic Party's rules by moving their primaries to January in an attempt to leap frog other states' primaries. As a result, the Democratic National Committee is planning to deny seats to the delegates from these two states at the Democratic National Convention.
In spite of all this, a legally binding primary was held in these two states. It is only a matter of time before someone who voted in these primaries will file a lawsuit because their vote must be honored.
Nobody in this country can be told that their legally cast vote does not count because leaders of a state and national party made a mistake. Before those primaries were held, the DNC and the Michigan/Florida Democratic Committees should have realized that you cannot simply disregard a vote (once it is cast) just because they could not come to an agreement.
And you cannot just "redo" an election to fix a mistake. If anything the DNC and the Michigan/Florida Democratic Committees should have learned this from the 2000 presidential election.
You must count every vote that is cast on the day, place and time that it is legally cast. Otherwise we run the risk of putting the very foundation of our nation in jeopardy.
Unfortunately, this issue will once again have to be resolved by the courts because the so-called party leaders tried to get cute with the process.
Joe Bialek
This letter is in response to the articles covering the controversy surrounding the Michigan and Florida Democratic primaries.
Michigan and Florida defied the Democratic Party's rules by moving their primaries to January in an attempt to leap frog other states' primaries. As a result, the Democratic National Committee is planning to deny seats to the delegates from these two states at the Democratic National Convention.
In spite of all this, a legally binding primary was held in these two states. It is only a matter of time before someone who voted in these primaries will file a lawsuit because their vote must be honored.
Nobody in this country can be told that their legally cast vote does not count because leaders of a state and national party made a mistake. Before those primaries were held, the DNC and the Michigan/Florida Democratic Committees should have realized that you cannot simply disregard a vote (once it is cast) just because they could not come to an agreement.
And you cannot just "redo" an election to fix a mistake. If anything the DNC and the Michigan/Florida Democratic Committees should have learned this from the 2000 presidential election.
You must count every vote that is cast on the day, place and time that it is legally cast. Otherwise we run the risk of putting the very foundation of our nation in jeopardy.
Unfortunately, this issue will once again have to be resolved by the courts because the so-called party leaders tried to get cute with the process.
Joe Bialek
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