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Florida Dems Nix Primary Do-Over

Posted Mar 17, 08 7:24 PM CDT in Politics 

(Newser) – Florida Democrats reacted to weeks of political wrangling today by ditching plans for a mail-in revote, the Miami Herald reports. "Thousands of people responded," Florida Democratic Party chair Karen Thurman wrote. "The consensus is clear: Florida doesn’t want to vote again. So we won’t." But she said the Sunshine State still isn't calling it quits.

"It means that a solution will have to come from the DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee" next month, she explained. Hillary Clinton's camp said it was disappointed by the move, but Barack Obama had shown concern over the security of a hasty mail-in vote. Meanwhile Michigan Democrats mulled a measure today for a privately funded re-vote on June 3, the AP reports.

Sources: Miami Herald, Associated Press, Politico

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Hillary Clinton waves to supporters in Davie, Fla., Jan. 29, 2008. Clinton won the state's Democratic primary but will get no delegates. Today, the party announced it will not hold a redo vote.   (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Voters line up at a polling station to vote in Florida's presidential primary, Jan. 29, in Coral Gables, Fla. Florida's Democratic Party chairman announced today there will be no redo vote.   (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
Chair of Florida's Democratic Party, Karen Thurman, announces that the party will go ahead with the Presidential Primary on Jan. 29, 2008. Today, Thurman announced there will be no redo vote.   (AP Photo/Jon Way)
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