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Mar 5, 2008 4:00 am US/Pacific
Florida, Michigan Fight To Count
Governors Call On DNC To Seat Delegates Selected During January Primaries
LANSING, Mich. (CBS) ―
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Floridians vote at the C. Lawton McCall Community Center during the Florida Primary Jan. 29, 2008, in Miami Shores, Florida
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The governors of Michigan and Florida are saying it's increasingly important that delegates from the two states be seated.
Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm and Florida Governor Charlie Crist say it's "reprehensible" the voices of 5.2 million people who voted in the two primaries would be silenced.
Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton won both contests in January.
They say it's "intolerable" that the Democratic National Committee has stripped the states of their delegates for moving up their primaries in violation of DNC rules.
DNC officials have suggested to both Michigan and Florida that holding another presidential contest of some kind would be one way to get the delegates seated. Both states say caucuses would be expensive to run.
The DNC Credentials Committee could agree this summer to seat the delegates.
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