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From: Dale Baker	5/28/2008 8:54:32 AM
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Memo: Fla., Mich. can't be fully restored By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer Tue May 27, 11:36 PM ET WASHINGTON - A Democratic Party rules committee has the authority to restore delegates from Michigan and Florida but not fully seat the two states at the convention as Hillary Rodham Clinton wants, according to a party analysis. ADVERTISEMENT Party rules require that the two states lose at least half of their convention delegates for holding elections too early, Democratic National Committee lawyers wrote in a 38-page memo. The memo was sent late Tuesday to the 30 members of the party's Rules and Bylaws Committee, which plans to meet Saturday to consider the fate of convention delegates from the two states. The party is considering plans to restore at least some of the delegates to make sure the two important general election battlegrounds will be included at the nominating convention in August. The analysis lays out merits on all sides of the argument of how many delegates should be seated and how they should be divided. And it underscores a prickly problem — if the Rules and Bylaws Committee decides to restore any of the states' delegates, there is not a simple way to divide them between Clinton and Barack Obama. That's especially true in Michigan, where Obama had his name pulled from the ballot because the primary violated the party rules. He didn't have the option of removing his name in Florida, but neither he nor any of his rivals campaigned in either state as part of a pledge organized by the four states that had early voting privileges. Clinton won the majority of the vote in both contests and has been arguing that their delegates should be fully restored according to the results of the January vote. But even if they were, it would not be enough to overcome Obama's delegate lead.

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