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UNITY COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS. The top recommendation of the Democratic National Committee’s Unity Commission is receiving support from New Hampshire backers of former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.As we reported last week, the commission, which was formed during the 2016 Democratic National Convention, held its final meeting last weekend in Washington and voted on recommendations aimed at improving the presidential nominating process for 2020. The commission, created in response to the highly contentious 2016 campaign, was made up of 21 members selected by Hillary Clinton, Sanders and DNC Chairman Tom Perez.The commission suggested that the party reduce the number of convention superdelegates by about 60 percent to 400 and that most of those 400 no longer be unpledged. Instead, they would be bound to a candidate based on the outcome of the presidential primaries or caucuses in their states.The only remaining superdelegates to have unilateral control over who they choose to support at the 2020 convention would be elected officials, such as governors or members of Congress. “This is yet another in a long line of examples of real change coming from the bottom up,” said former state Sen. Burt Cohen of New Castle, a member of the Sanders New Hampshire Steering Committee.“Democrats are making real progress at the state and local levels and it’s trickling up to the DNC. They’re getting the message that if we’re going to have superdelegates – which I wish we didn’t – then they absolutely should reflect the will of the voters.”Other Sanders backers also told us they were pleased with the change.The recommendations will be finalized in a written report due Jan. 1 and then forwarded to the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee. That panel will decide whether to incorporate the recommendations into the party’s proposed rules for the 2020 process, with the full DNC eventually voting on final approval.The Sanders wing of the party was furious in 2016 that the superdelegates, comprised mainly of the party elites, swung heavily toward Clinton. According to Bloomberg Politics final delegate tracker count, Clinton received the backing of a total of 2,814 delegates, including 609 superdelegates, while Sanders received the support of 1,893 delegates, including only 47 superdelegates.In New Hampshire, Sanders won the pledged delegate race by a 15-9 margin based on his 60 percent to 38 percent landslide win in the first-in-the-nation primary. But six of the eight superdelegates supported Clinton, with only state Sen. Martha Fuller Clark backing Sanders, bringing the total to 16 for Sanders and 15 for Clinton.When New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair Raymond Buckley backed Clinton at the convention because she had clearly secured the nomination, the final New Hampshire delegate vote was tied at 16, despite Sanders’ lopsided primary win.