by Journeyman The Democratic National Committee has announced that the delegates from Florida and MIchigan will be admitted to the presidential convention, but as a penalty for those states' decisions to move their primary dates forward, each delegate will have one-half of a vote. Does this strike anyone as another bit of artificial rule-bending and "lawyering"? An election is the very thing which defines a democracy... an act of total, near-sacred seriousness...the selection of leadership by popular vote, at least ideally. __NOEDITSECTION__