Every convention is entitled to its own rules. The 2012 rules are in effect until a majority of the convention accepts or rejects them, same as always.
A majority of convention delegates are necessary to change the rules to allow a new GOP-E candidate. The same majority that would be necessary to select the nominee.
Seems to me that objections raised have nothing to do with Establishment cheating, but rather are panic at the thought so few like-minded people participate or even have knowledge of their own state’s delegates.
“Every convention is entitled to its own rules. The 2012 rules are in effect until a majority of the convention accepts or rejects them, same as always.”
The 2012 convention passed rule 40 (b) as a temporary rule applicable only to 2012. In order for 40 (b) to apply to the 2016 convention, the 2016 convention would have to pass it again. As it now stands, Rule 40 (b) doesn’t apply and if there is a conspiracy to deny some one something, that conspiracy began in 2012.