Going back to at least 1936, the answer is: Nope not honest. One of the worst tricks was when the democrats banded together in 1952 to prevent the nomination @ the RNC of Taft.
An illegal delegation of democrats from Texas & other states went to the RNC and challenged the legal delegations seated for Taft. Earl Warren was promised an appointment to the Supreme Court, and Richard Nixon was promised the VP slot in exchange for California voting to seat the illegal delegates.
Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas democRATic delegates were seated. There has also been intimidation such as: we will
call in your home loan, not give you an agricultural loan, and you will loose your state job etc. etc. if you do not vote at the convention like we tell you to.
When the LSM commentators lament that the conventions are just carefully scripted infomercials, they are really telling you that they long for the good old days of the dirty tricks conventions they used to cover.
So my fellow freeper, the corruption and cheating has been there looong time and not just during the campaign, it starts before and attempts to influence the nomination itself.
Thanks for the history lesson.
The past history of the rats and their current history shows that they are not capable of winning an election the honest way by legal votes.