Nothing new with the party that tried to stop the votes of the armed forces members from being counted in Florida in 2000, but now if you voted in the Florida primary or the Michigan primary the DNC wants you hold caucuses. That way your delegates can be seated at the convention without a fight since the DNC didn’t like you moving your primary date up so you could have a voice.

Of course, the only candidate who ran in either state was Hillary Clinton so if they allow the primaries to stand she would get all the delegates from those two states.

LANSING, Mich. — The Democratic National Committee is pressuring Michigan and Florida to hold Democratic presidential caucuses so the delegates they’ve lost for holding January primaries could be seated at the national convention, a top Michigan Democrat said Wednesday.

DNC member Debbie Dingell said it’s unclear whether either state would hold caucuses since they’ve already held primaries. But she said the DNC is asking the two states to consider such a plan.

DNC spokesman Damien LaVera had no comment.

But Michigan Democratic Chairman Mark Brewer said the DNC isn’t saying anything it hasn’t said before to Michigan and Florida.

”Everybody involved, the candidates, the DNC and we, need to remain open-minded. So if someone comes up with a creative way that meets everyone’s interests, we can do that” and get the delegates seated, he said.

Florida Democratic Party spokesman Mark Bubriski agreed with Brewer that the DNC’s position isn’t new. But he said the party has no intention of holding another election.

”We’ve said all along that we’re going forward with our delegate selection program using the vote on Jan. 29,” he said. ”We’ve got more delegate applications than ever.”

When people start hollering about disenfranchisement during the general election, just be sure to pin the problem where it lies. A party that willingly disenfranchises its own delegates from a primary will do all it can to scream the other party disenfranchised voters all across the country. That’s become the norm since 2000. Thank you, Al Gore.

And the Republicans’ hands are not clean on this issue either as a couple of states dared to hold their primaries earlier than allowed by the RNC.

Both parties should let every vote count regardless of when it was taken.