Developing: New MI and FL Delegate Plan Under Discussion (No mail-in)

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Thursday March 13, 2008 · 1:17 PM PDT

2008/03/13 · 13:17

After finding out that a re-vote in Florida by mail-in is illegal. A new plan for the seating of Michigan's and Florida's delegates is being discussed.

Michigan: Split the 156 delegates 50/50 between Obama and Clinton

Update: Correction on Florida thanks loree920

Florida: Seat all the delegates Florida would normally have but give them 1/2 a vote, resulting in a 19 net delegates for Clinton.

Superdelegates would be free to vote for whomever

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Here is the statement from Florida

Florida law prohibits election officials from authenticating votes cast in the Democratic Party's proposed do-over primary by mail, state officials said Thursday, a potentially fatal blow to the increasingly embattled plan.

''There's no authority under Florida law that would allow county supervisors of election or the state to verify signatures in an election of a state party,'' said Sterling Ivey, a spokesman for Florida's secretary of state and Division of Elections.

Halperin says this,

The betting: Florida and Michigan delegates, the DNC, and the Clinton campaign would all — some reluctantly– accept this deal.

Then it would be over to you, Barack Obama.

The splitting of Michigan's delegates Obama would be fine with but Florida's are a little more tricky. I would assume that if Obama is comfortably in the lead nearer to the convention (perhaps after PA) he would agree to this.

It would also save roughly $10-$12 million for a new election in Florida alone.

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