Democrats are a step closer to significantly diminishing the influence of unelected superdelegates in their party’s presidential nominating process.
The Unity Reform Commission, a group charged with fixing the perceived flaws in the party’s nomination process, is recommending to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) that the party cut the number of superdelegates able to vote at the party’s convention by about 60 percent.
Hurdles remain, however. The commission’s recommendation to eliminate about 400 superdelegates is not a mandate.
The recommendations will now go to the Democratic National Committee’s rules and bylaws committee, and then likely to the full 447-member Democratic National Committee for consideration sometime next year, where it will need two-thirds support to pass.
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