Solution

This a hold post to test a new approach. The Democratic Party solution for selecting the party nominee for 2012 and beyond.

The democratic process to select the party nominee has become so complicated and confusing. Its design has proven over the years to stall the process and drag it for a long period of time.

Let’s see how the system is designed today:
1. Superdelegates Role: It has been a lot of discussion recently about the process itself and the role those superdelegates in deciding the party nominee. No matter what the reason for creating the superdelegates role in the past, it has no place in today’s politics, and cast a great question mark and shadow over the election process and democracy itself. In addition, discussions are now being conducted all over the internet about the wisdom of a caucus instead or a primary. Why should a small percentage of the population have to decide what the general public ought to decide? They might be more enthusiastic about their preferred nominee, but that still does not give them the right to decide for the general population.
2. Proportional Delegate allocation: Proportional Delegate allocation is another faulty design. As it has been seen so far in every election that is had dragged the process a long time that is taken to select the party nominee. It does not serve the public well. Seeing what happened in this year nomination process, as well as in previous years, a new solution is warranted and here it is. We have 50 Sates plus DC and 4 territories (PR, GU, AS, DA, and 5 if you Northern Mariana as the GOP did).

The solution for 2012 Democratic Nomination process and beyond:

1. Change all caucuses to Primaries.
2. Allow early voting in every state and the elimination of voting machines that do not produce a paper trail.
3. All citizens should be allowed to vote absentee if they so choose
4. Introduce five rotating regional super Tuesdays from Fen. Till June. See Regional schedule for more detail. Sen. Nelson (D-FL), Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan and the former secretary of state Worley advocated for a "rotating regional primary system" idea.
5. Change the numbers of delegate that each state to match the exact number of the Electoral Votes in the general election.
6. Change the allocation to “Winner Takes All” at state wide or at the State congressional district level. The first is better.
7. Get rid of all super delegates role altogether “Superdelegates -- Republicans don't have them in their nominating process”, they just will ruin the Democratic Party in 2008, and will do the same in future Elections.
8. Each state should enact a law Impose “24 Hours Election Blackout on the media and the Candidates”. The blackout out should start 24 hours before the poll closed in the first state and extended until the poll closes in the last state conducting election on that day, learn from FL 2000. It should prevent them from showing anything related to the elections including but not limited to “Campaigning, Exit Polls, Projections, Predicting, etc.” Similar to other countries such as Serbia.

The benefits of this solution are:
1. The will of the voter is the one who will determine the Democratic Party nominee, not those superdelegates that does a lot of unseen politics and backroom secret deals.
2. The nation will have 2 Tuesdays to worry about and save the public from the Media bombardments about the election every day from Feb. to June.
3. The primaries result will be known within a short period of time, while the caucuses take from 2-3 months.
4. The Nominee will be known in May and he/she and the DP has 6 months to concentrate on November General Election.
5. The states will have the same exact number of delegates as the general election, which seems more logical.

How to do it:
1. The plan should be implemented nation wide within 3 years period.
2. Make a schedule to implement this plan no later than Jan. 2009.
3. Each state and territory should pass laws to implement this plan, no later than Jun. 2010.
4. Void any Federal law that prevents the states from implementing this plan.
5. Void any state laws that contradict this plan.

Who will support this plan?
1. The US voter who will feel that the process is truly democratic and their vote will not be thrown away by superdelegates backrooms secret deals.
2. Independents candidates who will have no chance otherwise, because of the superdelegates role.

Who will oppose this plan?
1. The superdelegates that got used to privileges and benefits of influencing the nomination process, which in turns enhance their personal agenda, not to mention the tons of money they get in the process.
2. The Media that generates Millions and Millions of dollars from the DP ads stretched from Jan. to Jun. Plus it keep them filling their political programs, instead of the useless stuff that they usually have.