Morning Open Thread: DC Delegates

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Keith Ivey has an interesting look at the situation surrounding DC's delegates:

The District of Columbia will be sending 39 delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Denver this August, and at this point all but 7 of those delegates have been selected. Of the 39, 15 are pledged delegates allocated according to the results of the February 12 primary, and 24 are unpledged delegates, also known as superdelegates.
DC has an unusually large number of superdelegates because a lot of at-large members of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) live here. Even though those DNC members are part of the DC convention delegation, they don’t really represent DC. If one moved to Virginia, for example, before the convention, then that superdelegate position would move with them, and DC would lose one delegate while Virginia gained one.

As you quickly realize, the delegate situation gets pretty confusing the more you look at the actual rules. A big problem with this primary going all the way to the convention is that it will expose all of these electoral quirks in our system that, while normally glossed over, can make a big, undemocratic difference in close races.
I'm sure DC isn't the only "state" with these issues. Do you have any information to share about your state's delegate selection process and its unique quirks?
This is an open thread, what's going on this morning?
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