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Letters to the Editor
Issue date: 6/4/08 Section: Forum
I will wholeheartedly agree that the punishment was unfair; just as an unjust law is not "good law," as such is an unjust punishment, and while I will stand by the DNC's decisions to create rules for those who try to play the process for their own gains, the punishment they attributed to the rule's breaking was extreme and foolishly harsh.
But those rules were in place and the rules broken; that has happened and cannot be changed. What your editorial failed to do was provide a valid solution to the problem that has arisen. It is easy to criticize, it is much harder to construct.
To count all of those votes would be foolish; as you mentioned, the frontrunner was not even on the Michigan ballot! And what about the untold thousands that did not vote, told that their vote was not going to count?
The solution is a revote. But then that brings with it its own problems: who pays for it? The taxpayers? That is not fair nor wise. The party? They were merely enforcing the rules they created to protect the system. And if a revote is held, you ultimately reward the states that broke the rules by making them kingmakers in the end. The results without a revote is unfair, the results of a revote unfair. The DNC is doing the best they can with a messy situation and will surely work hard to ensure such situations don't arise in the future.
Tucker Rossetto
junior, political science
But those rules were in place and the rules broken; that has happened and cannot be changed. What your editorial failed to do was provide a valid solution to the problem that has arisen. It is easy to criticize, it is much harder to construct.
To count all of those votes would be foolish; as you mentioned, the frontrunner was not even on the Michigan ballot! And what about the untold thousands that did not vote, told that their vote was not going to count?
The solution is a revote. But then that brings with it its own problems: who pays for it? The taxpayers? That is not fair nor wise. The party? They were merely enforcing the rules they created to protect the system. And if a revote is held, you ultimately reward the states that broke the rules by making them kingmakers in the end. The results without a revote is unfair, the results of a revote unfair. The DNC is doing the best they can with a messy situation and will surely work hard to ensure such situations don't arise in the future.
Tucker Rossetto
junior, political science
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