Florida's history of discrimination against African Americans should force the national Democratic Party to count all of the state's delegates at its national convention, a federal lawsuit filed Thursday claims.
The suit, filed by state Senate Democratic Leader Steve Geller and two other Democrats, claims that the federal Voting Rights Act prohibits the national party from stripping the state of its convention delegates.
The Civil Rights-era law requires the U.S. Justice Department to approve any significant voting change in Florida to make sure it doesn't disenfranchise minority voters. Geller argues that includes the Democratic National Committee's demand that Florida switch ''from a state-run primary to party-run caucus system'' to avoid losing its delegates.
''The purpose of this lawsuit is not to support one candidate over another; it's to enforce one of the most basic tenets of our democracy: Count the votes as they were cast,'' Geller said in announcing the lawsuit.
I assume this will be dismissed in due course, but it will take a few weeks.
Here's the video of Geller laughing at the idea that the DNC would punish them for violating the rules:
Screw that fat fuck.
Update 5/29/08: Case dismissed.
yup, once again the US demonstrates that it has this democracy stuff down pat and is the ideal nation to spread that gospel to the World.
rules are rules, you break 'em, your vote won't be counted.
Posted by: Tiny Tyrant | May 23, 2008 at 09:04 AM