NHPR's Laura Knoy: "So, if you value the DNC calendar, why not just pull out of Michigan? Why not just say, Hey Michigan, I'm off the ballot?"
Hillary Clinton: "Well, you know, It's clear, this election they're having is not going to count for anything"http://www.nhpr.org/node/13858After elections where many stayed home because they were told that they weren't going to receive any delegates...
Clinton told Smith that she had promised not to campaign in either state, and had kept her word – but that she had never said she would not ask for the results of those contests to be made official, a request her campaign made public on the eve of Florida’s January vote.http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/02/22/clinton-says-again-florida-and-michigan-votes-should-count/IMO The real disenfranchising of FL an MI voters is having elections where people stay home because they were told that no electors would be awarded.(FL too...the high turnout related to ballot initiatives {further MI and FL are two of few states where Dem turnout was LOWER than Rep turnout})
Think of it like this. The GOP puts a "symbolic" ballot initiative banning the GBLT community... then when few show up and they get the result they want... "SURPRISE" they say... "you can't disenfranchise the voters" they say... "let's go round them up" they say... Obviously democracy doesn't work like that. See why now?
Side note: Threatening that FL and MI will not vote in the GE is a BS argument. FL and MI democrats really need to take a look at their state leadership. They are definitely the problem... hmmm... look at who they have endorsed... hmmm.. I am fed up with people like Bus.. umm Clinton who want to change the rules to meet their own ends.