Clinton won't be candidate at convention

NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Hillary Clinton has decided against having her name submitted in nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, the Daily News in New York reports.

"She is not going to submit the signed request," a source close to Clinton told the Daily News. "People are still circulating petitions on her behalf but this is a done deal."

Clinton ended her presidential campaign shortly after the last primary in early June. Under Democratic Party rules, candidates who want their names to be submitted to the convention must submit their request in writing with petitions signed by 300 to 600 delegates.

Delegates are still free to vote for her if they wish. She won 1,886 delegates and has advised them to vote for Obama at the convention. She may formally release them when she gives her speech on the second night of the convention.

"Hillary Clinton is 100 percent committed to helping Barack Obama become the next president of the United States and realizes there are passionate feelings that remain among many of her supporters," Kathleen Strand, a spokeswoman for the U.S. senator form New York, said to the newspaper. "No decisions have been made at this time."

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