Mark Levin Republican GOP

DRUMP REPORT: LETS CALL IT STEALING AN ELECTION EVEN THOUGH IT HASN’T BEEN STOLEN……

Anything for dear leader……

Drump Report

Then there’s Trumpbart:

trumpbart colrado vote

Then there is what really happened…….you decide.From Right Scoop

NOTE: I might piss off some of my readers who are Trump supporters, but I do have integrity towards my readers and to the truth, no matter where the chips may fall. They are really going to have to ask themselves, do they really want this kind of man representing them that does this kind of nonsense?

Then there’s more:

Donald Trump speaking at event.
  • From 1912 to 1988, and since 2004, Colorado used the current system for delegate selection, with no preference vote binding.
  • Even in 1992, 1996, and 2004 delegates were bound by vote, but were free to vote conscience on second ballot.
  • In 2012, Santorum won the non-binding straw poll but Romney received more delegates at conventions.
  • A 2012 rules change at the RNC required any state that held a straw poll to bind their delegates, Colorado chose not to hold the straw poll, to enhance grass-roots participation.

If you’ve been on the internet this morning, you’ve seen the scathing headlines: “Republicans cancel presidential election in CO…” and “Fury as Colorado has no Primary or Caucus,” among others. The problem is that this is not exactly true. Colorado only briefly flirted with a binding primary, but even then the delegates were selected by a caucus-convention system. From 1912 – 1988, and 2004 to the present the delegates were not bound by a preferential vote. This year was no different.

In Colorado, a caucus is held to elect delegates to county assemblies and the county assemblies elect delegates to state and district assemblies where the delegates to the RNC are chosen. That is how it has worked over the past four presidential cycles, and it is nothing new for this year.

First, a little recent history. Conservative Review spoke to Florence Sebern, a member of the 2012 RNC Convention Rules Committee from Colorado. Sebern outlined how the Colorado Republican Party started holding non-binding straw polls to coincide with their caucuses in 2008. Sebern explained the process: “Prior to 2012 RNC rules changes, Colorado’s presidential preference poll (instituted in 2008), did not bind delegates. Delegates could choose to pledge, via the National Delegate Notice of Intent form. A pledge bound delegates through the 1st round of voting.”

The New York Times description of the caucus system in Colorado in 2008 and 2012 confirms this account. In both instances they describe how the delegates are unbound from the results of the straw poll.

So why the change this year? According to Sebern, RNC rules instituted in 2012 said that any state that holds a preference poll in conjunction with their caucuses must bind delegates according to the results. The new rule was 16(a)(1):

Any statewide presidential preference vote that permits a choice among candidates for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in a primary, caucuses, or a state convention must be used to allocate and bind the state’s delegation to the national convention in either a proportional or winner-take-all manner, except for delegates and alternate delegates who appear on a ballot in a statewide election and are elected directly by primary voters.

The caucus system was not fundamentally changed. What was changed was that a meaningless straw poll was not conducted — one that wouldn’t bind the delegates anyway.

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2 Responses

  1. You forgot the people? Maybe THEY would have liked to vote. This is the same as the communist party did in USSR. Its who counts the votes that mattered.

    Yeah. The people don’t count. Thats a fine electoral system.

    Clearly we need a new party.

    1. You are obviously ignorant of the primary and caucus system. There are a multitude of ways the states arrange their elections processes, in caucuses, anyone who shows up as a registered repub can vote for delegates. Also, if the process is so corrupt, why doesn’t Donald contest the primaries and caucuses which he won? He has earned 45% of the delegates with 37% of the vote. He has benefited the most from the process. Don’t be a chump, the man is playing people for fools, he’s main game is tactics…loud blather..in place of substance.

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