Reply #30: It's quite non-democratic really....

[casus belli]

I read somewhere that, when broken down, each superdelegate vote is equivalent to more than 150,000 or so regular votes. This being due to the fact that one superdelegate vote counts directly in the results whereas the votes of citizens are condensed into representative delegate votes. This places an absolutely unforgivable amount of power (roughly 20% of the total delegate vote count) in the hands of a very small number of people. Assuming the 150,000+ figure is correct, that amounts to roughly 20% of the vote being decided on by <.00001 percent of participating voters.

The long and short of it is this: a candidate could conceivably win an election in which they only received 31% of the delegates awarded on the election results. That assumes of course that the delegate with 31% has all of the superdelegate votes, which is highly unlikely, but it is within the realm of possibility.

I have no explanation why this hasn't been changed. But, it certainly doesn't reflect well on us as a party which prides itself on being a big-tent seeking to give a voice to all people who make up its ranks. This procedure should never have been adopted in the first place, and should at the least have been rescinded a long time ago.