Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Red Steel

The article is breaking as of tonight, your link is from earlier today. Read the article and think.


38 posted on 03/03/2016 12:41:05 AM PST by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting for a ride home)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies ]


To: OneVike; DoughtyOne
Finally, after a lot of searching and a lot of complicated charts that weren’t exactly correct it appears that the Texas Delegates ended up totaling 115 for Cruz and 40 for Trump.

Complicated charts? There's no complicated charts. If the counts are correct per Congressional District, it's easy to figure out.

Cruz didn't get 50% (but for 2 CDs over 50%) or more of the vote so he gets 2 delegates per Texas congressional district as the highest vote getter and being over 20% That equal 2 x 34 CDs = 68, And the two CDs that Cruz got 50% or higher, he was awarded all three; 2 x 3 = 6 delegates. So that's 74 delegates in total.

For the 47 at large Texas delegates, since Cruz was under 50% of the vote, they are also proportional. Cruz won 30 of these at large delegates out of 47.

The formula see [Rule 38. Section 9.b.]

Statewide proportional of candidates 20% or more.
Cruz: 47 × 1,252,969[Cruz's votes] ÷ 2,022,284 [total TX votes] = 29.120 rounds up to 30 delegates.
Trump: 47 × 769,315 ÷ 2,022,284 = 17.880 truncates to 17 delegates.

Therefore Cruz wins 104 Texas delegates. This guy smoking something.

74 posted on 03/03/2016 1:14:46 AM PST by Red Steel
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson