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Superdelegates Distort Democracy

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: May 11, 2008

I find the use of superdelegates outrageously undemocratic. The fact is one's individual vote becomes more remote in directly counting in a presidential election, not only since 1980 when the superdelegate system started, but from the beginning of our nation.

Check history and you will find there has never been a direct pure democracy, including Pericles' in ancient Greece or Julius Caesar's in Rome.

Our democracy has been indirect and limited from the beginning. Senators have only been directly voted upon since 1916. The enormity of the superdelegates violation of "one person one vote" is unbearable.

It is disgraceful enough that G.W. Bush was "elected" by a minority in 2000. It is worse that there are superdelegates at all.

CHARLES L. SODARO

Tarpon Springs

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