[Political Junkie Too]

RNC convention rule 16(a)(2) says otherwise. It says that faithless delegates will be punished for violating state rules if they try to vote against a bound candidate .

---

(2) For any manner of binding or allocating delegates under these rules, if a delegate (i) casts a vote for a presidential candidate at the national convention inconsistent with the delegate’s obligation under state law or state party rule, (ii) nominates or demonstrates support under Rule No. 40 for a presidential candidate other than the one to whom the delegate is bound or allocated under state law or state party rule, or (iii) fails in some other way to carry out the delegate’s affirmative duty under state law or state party rule to cast a vote at the national convention for a particular presidential candidate, the delegate shall be deemed to have concurrently resigned as a delegate and the delegate’s improper vote or nomination shall be null and void. Thereafter the secretary of the convention shall record the delegate’s vote or nomination in accordance with the delegate’s obligation under state law or state party rule. This subsection does not apply to delegates who are bound to a candidate who has withdrawn his or her candidacy, suspended or terminated his or her campaign, or publicly released his or her delegates.

---

This subsection is about enforcing state binding rules. It says at the top that a delegate who does not vote as the state directed them to will be discharged, and their vote will be recorded as the state initially directed.

Convention rules specifically DO enforce state binding rules.

-PJ

[Snowybear]

Exactly. People like French, Erikson and their ilk need to be shot. There I said it. I’m so sick of these idiots spreading disinformation and almost equally sick of people actually believing it.

[deport]

Those are/were the 2012 convention rules. The 2016 convention will adopt their
rules once the convention is offically in session. I suspect the rule will remain
the same but they do/can make changes from convention to convention.

[OKSooner]

But it’s not about what the rules say, it’s about who enforces the rules. /s

[drpix]

The weasel writing the article is aware of the rule you cite (binding delegates) and writes of how he sees a way around it. From the article:

"{Rule 16(a)(2)} will expire upon the start of the 2016 convention" and it "would have to {be} adopted by a vote of the RNC Rules Committee in Cleveland before it even applied to this year's delegates."

The weasels are planning their treason to play out during the meeting of the 2016 Convention Rules Committee the week before the Convention begins. BE ALERT!