Florida and Michigan can only get half of delegates, legally..per lawyers

[Doityourself]

Democratic Party lawyers are telling a committee looking at the fate of disputed delegates from Florida and Michigan that they can't restore all of them, the Associated Press is reporting this morning.

The two states must lose at least half of their 368 total delegates for holding their primaries before party rules allowed, the lawyers say in a 38-page memo sent late Tuesday to the 30 members of the party's Rules and Bylaws Committee, which plans to meet Saturday in Washington.

The committee can either allow half the number of delegates from each state into the national convention or allow the full delegations to attend, but give them each half a vote, but seating half the delegates is "as far as it legally can" go, the lawyers say, according to the AP.

The lawyers, however, don't suggest how any delegates should be divided between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Clinton needs as many delegates as possible from the two states to have any hope of catching Obama, who is currently within 47 delegates of clinching the Democratic nomination. That number would change if any Florida and Michigan delegates are restored.


http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/05/florida_and_mic.html

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Very King Solomon.