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Posted on 04/16/2016 5:00:37 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
“HOWEVER. Those 903 people were ELECTED at the precinct caucuses.”
Yes, which ignores how those who were elected are often elected in ways that are sometimes fair and sometimes foul. In the first place, voter participation in the caucus is in certain cases discouraged by changing the dates of the caucus without enough public notice for most of the public to realize there is an election in time before the event. Efforts to Get Out The Vote (GOTV) are reserved for the General Election and after the GOPe has already controlled the vote and the delegate selection in the precinct caucus election. Then the the candidate who received the most votes in the precinct caucus ends up receiving less delegates than the candidate/s receiving fewer votes or is represented by no delegates at all, or the delegates selected or elected at the precinct caucus is supposed to represent the candidate A, who received the most precinct caucus votes, but in reality will go to the convention/s and vote for candidate B, thusly disenfranchising the voters at the precinct caucus.
In one precinct in another state there were about 60+ voters out of a population of around 1,000 Republican voters, who voted in the caucus, despite the change in the date of the caucus and the fact that many Republican voters didn’t even realize when a precinct caucus was supposed to occur. Due to rule changes for 2016, a popular primary election was to be held to select the Presidential candidate. As a consequence of this rule change, the participation in the precinct caucus dropped even further from only 60+ voters down to just 9 voters and one Precinct Committee Officer (PCO). The selection of the delegates to the county convention was determined by 5 of the nine voters volunteering to be delegates, who were then automatically elected due to there being no one else available to go to the county convention. No alternate delegates were elected, because no one else volunteered to go to the county convention. When the county convention occurred, Only the PCO, who is an automatic delegate, and two delegates out of the five volunteer/elected precinct delegates attended and were seated. Out of those 3 delegates, the PCO left the convention in the middle of the morning session, and the precinct had no alternate delegates at the county convention to replace the absent PCO. In the end, only two delegates fully represented around 1,000 Republicans at the county convention. The remaining two delegates from the precinct caucus were both nominated as candidates to be delegates to the state convention, and both were voted out by the GOPe delegates from the other precincts, because they did not declare themselves for Ted Cruz. Looking at the roster of those who were successfully elected to become delegates to the state convention were almost all either a PCO or a family member of a PCO. In the end, however, there were not enough nominees to fill all of the delegate positions and the alternate delegate positions, so the 2 delegates from the one precinct who were defeated in the election of the delegates to the state convention were instead put into the alternate delegate positions by unanimous vote for the lack of any other volunteers from the GOPe pro-Cruz faction.
Now, you can try to argue this caucus and convention election I just described as being in accordance with the rules, more or less, but it certainly cannot be described as a fair or accurate representation of the true will and mandate from the Republican voters. It also does not account for the ways in which delegates to the county convention in earlier elections were selected by volunteering at the precinct caucus despite their being opposed to the candidate who received the most votes. The GOPe has exploited a myriad of ways of not providing a true representation of the will of the Republican voters over many decades, and the voters are in rebellion against the GOPe as a consequence. Trump appears to be the current beneficiary and standard bearer for this rebellion and expression of discontent only because he and Ben Carson were the only candidates willing to hold the GOPe accountable for their failures to represent the true will of so many Republican voters.
JimRobs answer to you, luv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3421722/posts
I was told yesterday that Trump is a liberal Democrat. My reply:
Remind me Floridian,
How many CDs did your boy, Fidelito, win in FL?
———00000000000000000000-————
How many votes did he lose to the Great Trump Master?
500,000 - -FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND-— - 1/2 Million
What state must POTUS win in the Real election?
—>Florida, No way can Fidelito win even 38% of FL.
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So if Cruz is the nominee, you’ll be voting for Hillary. Right newbie?
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Really, that’s all you got?
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