Posted on 11/24/2023 4:13:27 PM PST by DFG
"The penalty set by the RNC is the stripping of up to 90% of the state's delegates."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
If I understand this situation correctly, given that the RNC isn't mentioned in the Constitution, this situation is election interference imo.
In fact, given the zero tolerance "hair triggers" of Section 2 of the 14th Amendment, that section a penalty for states where ballot box fraud has occurred, the Trump-hating RNC needs to either support the voters or face the consequences imo.
"But when the right to vote at any election [...] is in any way abridged"
Excerpted from 14A:
"Section 2: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged [emphases added], except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State." [Section 2: Apportionment of Representatives]
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
I searched but found no penalty.
https://prod-cdn-static.gop.com/docs/Rules_Of_The_Republican_Party.pdf
This seems like the very definition of ELECTION INTERFERENCE.
Rule 17(A)
https://prod-cdn-static.gop.com/docs/Rules_Of_The_Republican_Party.pdf
If any state or state Republican Party violates Rule No. 16(c)(1) [beginning before 1 March] of these rules, the number of delegates ... shall be reduced for those states with 30 or more ... delegates to 9 plus the members of the Republican National Committee ..., and for those states with 29 or fewer ... to 6 plus the members of the Republican National Committee ... .” [Rule 17(a)]
These three hideous witches controlling Michigan are completly evil.
Republicans are nonexistent in Michigan. And when they dare to rise up, the trifecta of winches make sure they are disqualified....
It’s only going to get worse.
The Dems change their “rules” as it suits - why can’t the Repubs modify their rules to counter this shit?
The RNC should keep this in mind as they make their rules.
PARTY rules have nothing to do with actual LAWS or government enforced REGULATIONS.
Have a quick meet in a honky-tonk bar over a couple beers, vote “aye” on changing the dates... done and done.
Ya, it really is that easy.
This is why Democrats win...they have no rules. Anything goes.
All votes have already been counted democrat wins again.
No wonder Michigan has so many ghost towns.
Since this was done by the opposition party (democrats) with no republicans voting with them, can this not be nullified by the RNC by allowing the delegates to vote n the convention and allowing their vote to count?
Can be restored at the Convention in Milwaukee (why are we going to Milwaukee?) with a voice vote. Would be a nice first-night spotlight to have President Trump do it.
No state party has a right to compel its state to hold a primary election for Presidential delegates, nor can be compelled by a state to choose its Presidential delegates by primary.
Michigan GOP will simply have to schedule caucuses at a time compliant with RNC rules.
(Interestingly, in most states, the state CAN compel a party to choose its candidates for other offices by primary, or simply do away with the party choosing its candidates in any meaningful sense in favor of open primaries, jungle primaries and single transferable vote regimes.)
bttt
Iowa has gone more blue? I don’t think so…
Small states first gave lesser known candidates a chance to gradually build attention and support, but are likely irrelevant in the Social Media Age.
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