Florida isn’t exactly quaking in their boots about Howard Dean and the DNC’s threat to take away their delegates to the 2008 convention if they don’t shape up. The Sunshine State seems to have moved its primary to the early January window without a scratch, and South Carolina just recently leapfrogged again to be first.

It’s going to take more than penalties to get states to agree. That’s the subject of this op-ed in the Miami Herald by FairVote’s Ryan O’Donnell.

Other posts by Laura Kirshner

• Shift of fewer than 400,000 votes could have swung the election in McCain’s favor - November 5th, 2008
• 1 in 14 chance that the Electoral College winner will lose the National Popular Vote - September 8th, 2008
• Bi-partisan Panel Signs Joint Resolution for 2012 Primary Reform - August 21st, 2008
• Pushing back the Primaries: Don Means leads the National Caucus for 2012 Reform - August 1st, 2008
• Straight From the Horse’s Mouth: “Only winning the swing states matters” - July 8th, 2008
• The potential for women in the Senate - June 5th, 2008
• Ickes: System is "out of kilter" - August 27th, 2007
• Fix The Primaries in Miami Herald's Opinion Pages - August 15th, 2007
• California still left out of the campaign spotlight - July 30th, 2007
• The Shrinking Battleground: It's Smaller Than You Think - July 23rd, 2007