To: Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democratic National Committee Chair
DNC: Stop Rigging the Election
Notwithstanding Bernie's 60-38 landslide win in New Hampshire, the DNC has allotted all 8 of New Hampshire's superdelegates to Hillary. This has to stop.
Why is this important?
Primary candidates are elected based on the number of delegates they garner. New Hampshire has 24 “pledged” delegates, which are allotted based on the popular vote. Based on Bernie's stunning upset last night, Bernie was allotted 13 pledged delegates, Hillary was allotted 9, and 2 remain unallotted.
But under the Democratic National Committee rules, NH also has 8 “superdelegates,” which are allotted by the DNC. Each superdelegate caries the same weight as each pledged delegate. Notwithstanding Bernie's "yuuuge" victory, the DNC allotted all 8 NH superdelgates to Hillary.
This is not the first such ploy by the DNC to back Hillary and defeat Bernie. First, the DNC tried to stack the deck in Hillary's favor by limiting the number of debates and then scheduling them for obscure times in order reduce Bernie's outreach to an audience to whom he was largely unknown. Next, the DNC locked Bernie out of its own voter database, ostensibly due to the overzealousness of a member of team Bernie's, who exploited the weak security provided by the database company. This was entirely inappropriate on the part of the DNC, and Bernie filed a lawsuit to reverse it, within 24 hours of which, his database access was restored.
Please join me in sending a message to the DNC: "Enough is enough!" Stop trying to rig the Democratic primary. The DNC is undermining the very principles of fairness and democracy for which the Democratic party is supposed to stand.
But under the Democratic National Committee rules, NH also has 8 “superdelegates,” which are allotted by the DNC. Each superdelegate caries the same weight as each pledged delegate. Notwithstanding Bernie's "yuuuge" victory, the DNC allotted all 8 NH superdelgates to Hillary.
This is not the first such ploy by the DNC to back Hillary and defeat Bernie. First, the DNC tried to stack the deck in Hillary's favor by limiting the number of debates and then scheduling them for obscure times in order reduce Bernie's outreach to an audience to whom he was largely unknown. Next, the DNC locked Bernie out of its own voter database, ostensibly due to the overzealousness of a member of team Bernie's, who exploited the weak security provided by the database company. This was entirely inappropriate on the part of the DNC, and Bernie filed a lawsuit to reverse it, within 24 hours of which, his database access was restored.
Please join me in sending a message to the DNC: "Enough is enough!" Stop trying to rig the Democratic primary. The DNC is undermining the very principles of fairness and democracy for which the Democratic party is supposed to stand.