Yes, 903 committemen are sent to the county elections to vote.
HOWEVER. Those 903 people were ELECTED at the precinct caucuses.
So - who can vote at the precinct caucus? ANY and ALL registered Republican voters.
Your idea that only 903 people were allowed to vote is like saying that when it comes to Nov. 4th, only three voters from Wyoming get to vote. (Wyoming has 3 electoral college votes.)
From the Wyoming GOP Website:
The Chairman is elected to a two year term by the State Central Committee in the spring of odd numbered years. The National Committeeman and National Committeewoman are elected to four year terms at the state convention of presidential election years.
Delegates to the state convention are elected by the county conventions.
Delegates to the county convention are elected by precinct caucuses in their respective counties.
Any person registered to vote Republican as of the call for precinct caucuses in a given precinct may vote in that precinct’s caucus.
No.
1) They reduced the number by 55% by changing the rules.
2) It’s a Fricking BLIND vote! The ‘namebot’ you select may be the guy that winks at ya at the grocery store and says he’s Joe Conservative. Actually Joe, was going to vote for Jeb or Carly or Marco or........no one that I like!
So, I attend a precinct meeting and I vote for Mr. Goodman who votes for Mrs. Dumbnut who votes for Sen Jackazz.
3) And then the namebot-Joe has to attend meetings and travel about and schedule time for a conventions to vote for Ms. Dumbnut.
4) This process is so disenfranchising it’s not even funny. People live remotely in Wyoming. It’s excludes a very long list of people would love to just take 30 minutes and vote.
5) Wyoming is a great state with some wonderful people. How can you say that 99.87% of them have no interest in voting for a president. That’s around 269,000 registered republicans. They all just don’t care?
Your system of back-washing crony corrupted politcs makes a mockery of this Republic.
“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.