GREEN BAY, Wis. (WSAU) — Wisconsin democrats voted in favor of ending the superdelegate system for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination at their state convention on Saturday.
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a separate motion asking superdelegates to vote according to the state primary results this year was also passed. The resolution is nonbinding, but if the superdelegates heed the call, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders may gain more delegates to his count after winning Wisconsin in April’s primary.
Six of the state’s ten superdelegates have publicly pledged support to Hillary Clinton in the past, and three are undecided. If the delegates were to vote according to the results of their districts this year, Clinton would still receive four, but Sanders would have six.
The Democratic party will ultimately decide the policy on superdelegates nationwide. The delegates are unbound when voting in the party’s primary at the Democratic National Convention. As the system currently stands, these delegates are able to vote for whoever they wish to represent the party in the presidential election, regardless of the results in their state. Clinton leads in superdelegate numbers 547 to 46.
