Florida do-over, not in the bag yet

... mail bag that is.

If you haven't been following this, there has been a push to get Florida and Michigan's delegates counted since the election is so close. However, since both states still held elections and some Candidates even put money into those state's elections the cost of having a do-over seems too great. There was a recent plan of holding a mail in primary, which would obviously be much less expensive (unless you're a tree), however CNN is reporting now that this probably isn't going to work.

Apparently Florida has a law against mail in elections. Back to the drawing board Howard Dean!


BACKGROUND:
In case you haven't followed the origins of this problem. Both Florida and Michigan tried to give themselves a more significant role in the Primaries by moving their date forward. Well actually its not totally the Florida and Michigan Democrat's fault. The states' Republicans tried to move up the date first and the democrats (wanting to keep a consistent date) tried to follow. I'm not completely sure if this is how it played out, but I heard the date they choose was going to play out as occurring before Iowa and New Hampshire (the states that hold the "First in the Nation" status). Apparently though, Florida and Michigan didn't go through the proper channels to get permission from the Democratic National Convention to move their primary date ahead. As such the DNC striped these states of their delegates and thus all the participation rights in Democratic Primaries.

Nonetheless, Michigan and Florida had their primaries, but candidates were apparently instructed to not actively participate in them. Hillary Clinton and some other democratic candidates (John Edwards and Barack Obama were not included and weren't even on the ballot) broke that rule in Michigan. Later, when Florida had their turn, all Candidates then broke the rule and campaigned in the primary, but not vigorously as these states were not supposed to count.

To see more details about how these elections turned out check out the bottom of this blog for that and all post Super Tuesday primaries and caucus results.