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(s)Elections See other (s)Elections Articles Title: Democrats to stage symbolic vote on Clinton's bid Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton said Thursday they had agreed to submit her name to a symbolic vote by convention delegates who will decide the Democrats' White House nominee this month. "I am convinced that honoring Senator Clinton's historic campaign in this way will help us celebrate this defining moment in our history and bring the party together in a strong united fashion," Obama said in a joint statement. Clinton said: "With every voice heard and the party strongly united, we will elect Senator Obama president of the United States and put our nation on the path to peace and prosperity once again." At the August 25-28 convention in Denver, both Obama and Clinton are committed to registering the voices of all 35 million people who voted in the marathon Democratic primary season, the statement said. "To honor and celebrate these voices and votes, both Senator Obama's and Senator Clinton's names will be placed in nomination," it said. According to widespread reports, both camps have been debating for weeks the former first lady's demand for a public acknowledgement at the convention of her prolonged battle for the Democratic nomination. But the statement said the initiative came from the Illinois senator. "Senator Obama's campaign encouraged Senator Clinton's name to be placed in nomination as a show of unity and in recognition of the historic race she ran and the fact that she was the first woman to compete in all of our nation's primary contests," it said. "Senator Obama and Senator Clinton are looking forward to a convention unified behind Barack Obama as the party's nominee and to victory this fall for America." The decision means that delegates in Denver will hold a "roll-call" vote to formally enter Clinton's nearly 18 million primary votes into the record. The race ran all the way into June, and Clinton ultimately came up short as party grandees known as "superdelegates" rallied to Obama. "After the state-by-state roll is tallied, Mrs Clinton is expected to turn over her cache of delegates to Senator Barack Obama," the New York Times reported. "So how will Mrs Clinton, who is a superdelegate herself, vote? Associates say she will throw her lot behind Mr Obama and ask her supporters to follow suit," it said. In a YouTube video from a California fundraiser last month, Clinton told her supporters that a roll-call vote would provide "catharsis" for the Democratic Party after its bitter nominating fight. But it could also reveal continuing divisions, with pro-Clinton groups angered at her loss already planning to rally in Denver ahead of the nominating ballot on August 27. Clinton herself is due to address the convention in prime-time on August 26. Her husband, former president Bill Clinton, will speak on the next night when the ballot takes place
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