Why Do Democrats Not Want To Count Each Vote?
Source St Petersburg Times
If you live in Florida there is a very good chance that your primary vote will not count.
What if Democratic voters turned out for a presidential primary in Florida and their vote didn't count?...
It's an option national Democratic leaders are seriously considering as they grapple with Florida's newly scheduled 2008 presidential primary date, which could upend the national primary process and produce yet another weird Florida election. Consider the scenario:
On Jan. 29, Florida Republicans and Democrats head to the polls to pick presidential nominees. Republican votes count, just as you would expect, but the results for Democrats would be nonbinding. No delegates would be awarded based upon the results and instead party activists and insiders would decide on some later date how to divvy up the state's more than 200 delegates to the Democratic national convention.
It's an option national Democratic leaders are seriously considering as they grapple with Florida's newly scheduled 2008 presidential primary date, which could upend the national primary process and produce yet another weird Florida election. Consider the scenario:
On Jan. 29, Florida Republicans and Democrats head to the polls to pick presidential nominees. Republican votes count, just as you would expect, but the results for Democrats would be nonbinding. No delegates would be awarded based upon the results and instead party activists and insiders would decide on some later date how to divvy up the state's more than 200 delegates to the Democratic national convention.
Jon Ausman, a Tallahassee Democrat and member of the Democratic National Committee says, "I think it's much higher than 50-50 that we will make Jan. 29 a nonbinding" election.
Knowing that your vote may not count, now there is a way to get out the vote!
H/T to Nick who thinks it is ironic at "[t]he scene of one of the greatest election robberies of all time."