The Secret Election

On May 7, 2016, The Florida Democratic Party (FDP) held a statewide election for Democratic voters to select delegates to the Democratic National Convention to be held in Philadelphia, PA in July. These are the delegates who will be nominating the party’s presidential candidate in the 2016 U.S. presidential race.

Not many people vote in these delegate elections; a recent article stated fewer than 200 registered Democrats actually show up at the polls in each of Florida’s 26 congressional distr...