Florida and Michigan both violated Democratic Party rules when they moved up their primaries. The parties were notified beforehand that they would be punished for taking any action that went against the policies put in place by the DNC, yet these two states decided to move up their primaries anyway. So what should happen to them?
Personally, I believe that there are other ways to punish the party itself than to discount all of their votes in the presidential primaries. Why should the voters in these respective states be punished for actions committed by only a few top leaders within the state’s party organization? Isn’t it rather anti-Democratic to disenfranchise all of these voters because of an act that was completely out of their hands?
Surely there are other ways to punish the state party leaders. You could impose fines on them, or give the leaders suspensions. Even worse, you could remove them from their positions or give them demotions. But to discount millions of votes by law-abiding citizens? This simply doesn’t make sense to me, especially in a country where voter participation is already so low.
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