Saturday · December 9, 2017

DNC Unity Reform Commission Votes Nearly Unanimously for Proposals That Include Cutting 60 Percent of Superdelegates

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The Unity Reform Commission, which came out of the 2016 convention, held its final meeting in December 2017 and on Saturday “voted nearly unanimously” on proposals that included one to eliminate 60 percent of superdelegates. The commission had 21 members selected by Clinton, Sanders and DNC chair Tom Perez. Its vice chair Larry Cohen described the package as “eliminating 400 superdelegates out of 715 on the first ballot.”

Procedure, not outcome

These were recommendations. Per The Intercept, they went next to the DNC rules and bylaws committee and then to all 447 DNC members, where two-thirds support was needed. What the full DNC then adopted was narrower: see 2018-08-25–dnc-votes-to-bar-superdelegates-from-first-ballot-unless-pledged-majority.

Perception recorded

Sanders appointee Nomiki Konst, in her words: “We disabled the mechanisms that made superdelegates undemocratic.” That is an advocate’s description of what the package did.

Sources & Citations

[1] DNC Unity Reform Commission takes a whack at superdelegates — The Intercept · Dec 9, 2017 Tier 2
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The Cascade Ledger. “DNC Unity Reform Commission Votes Nearly Unanimously for Proposals That Include Cutting 60 Percent of Superdelegates.” The Capture Cascade Timeline, December 9, 2017. https://capturecascade.org/event/2017-12-09--dnc-unity-reform-commission-votes-to-cut-first-ballot-superdelegates/