Bernie Sanders

BY MAX GREENWOOD - 08/25/18 01:16 PM EDT

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The Democratic National Committee voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to limit the role of superdelegates in choosing the party’s presidential nominee, moving to heal internal divisions that emerged during the bitter 2016 primaries.

The reform, adopted by DNC members at their summer meeting in Chicago, will bar superdelegates – lawmakers, former presidents and other party dignitaries – from voting during the first ballot of the nominating process.

But superdelegates would be allowed to vote in the rare instance where a second ballot was needed to nominate a presidential candidate.

At the end, Perez prevailed in pushing the reform, having argued it would grow trust in the party by voting members.

“Our North Star is very simple: We want to grow the party, we want to make sure that people embrace the Democratic Party and we want to make sure people trust the Democratic Party,” Perez told CBS News in an interview this week.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/403492-dnc-moves-to-limit-role-of-superdelegates-in-presidential-nominations