Friday, January 25, 2008

Democrats Abroad

Making it a 'Global Primary', millions of Democrats abroad will have eight days (starting on Super Tuesday) to weigh in on who they want to send as a delegation of expatriots to the Convention.

If you want to vote as a Democrat abroad, you have to register by January 31st and you can't vote in your home state.

Yahoo News gives us the scale:
Democrats Abroad will send 22 delegates to the August Democratic Convention in Denver, 14 of whom will be elected through the global primary. The remaining eight members of the delegation are "superdelegates" – high-ranking members whose votes are not bound by primary or caucus results.

But with each of the expatriate delegates getting only half a vote, Democrats living abroad will have a convention delegation whose size is somewhere between those of Guam and Wyoming.

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