With a two-week legislative recess beginning Thursday, there is little leeway to find either a private donor or another election format.

Time also is an issue because the proposed June 3 primary date is less than a month after May 6 local elections.

The representatives, who said they do not speak for the party as a whole, said it is unknown whether local clerks would have time to conduct both elections.

It also is unknown where funds to compensate police officers and employees who work overtime at the polls would come from.

“There certainly is a time constraint looming here,” said state Rep. Matthew Gillard, D-Alpena. “I think that makes it more problematic for us.”

Even if a revote formula could be drafted, Gillard said just who could participate in the vote remains a question.

Since negotiations have revolved around prohibiting those who voted in the Republican primary from casting ballots in a Democratic revote, he said about 100,000 Democrats who went to the Republican polls Jan. 15 would be alienated — which could increase the chance of a Michigan victory for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in November.

“What are we going to say to those young people later on when they feel their vote was not counted?” said Rep. Brenda Clack, D-Flint. “We could lose a lot of young voters.”

Despite the representatives’ discrepancies with revote discussions, they said they believe the Democratic National Committee will seat the Michigan delegation at August’s convention in Denver.

“Michigan is too important to the presidential election for its delegates not to be seated,” said state Speaker of the House Andy Dillon, D-Redford.

But even with all the problems the representatives addressed, the debate on a revote isn’t dead.

“As a law school professor once told me, ‘Always avoid always and never say never,’” Condino said.