Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Guam Delegates

4207 votes will be cast at the convention, but there will be 4,227 actual delegates seated.

Guam will have 11* delegates, but only 8 votes.

Here is how it works:

1 vote for Madeleine Z. Bordallo, the Democratic member of Congress for Guam. She was born in Minnesota, is the wife of former Guam Governor Ricky Bordallo, and is a former Lt. Gov. herself. I'll do a whole piece on her at some point.

4 votes for the DNC members. I am trying to get an idea of who these might be. Robert Underwood and Frank Aguon were the Gov./Lt.Gov. candidates in 2006 and former Governor Carl T.C. Guttierrez was in the primary.

3 votes for the six unpledged at large delegates, 1/2 a vote each.

In the interests of Dem. unity, you have to want to see a nomination by unanimous acclamation, but the mischief maker in me would laugh if one of the fractional voters decided to make the vote 4206.5 to .5

*-the DNCC hotel list says they have 12. Not sure yet where the 12th comes from if that is accurate.

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