That’s hard to believe — and, if true, scary that a tiny number of party “insiders” have more say in Michigan than over a million voters. On second thought, it’s probably not all that unusual seeing as how the GOP works.
Was the caucus event today by invitation only?
Every state has its own rules—they are all over the place.
In the case of Michigan and Nevada and a few other places Democratic legislatures played games and ordered primaries when Republicans did not want them—so then the Republicans responded with both primaries and caucuses—but tilted the delegate awards to the caucuses.
The Democratic legislation required open primaries so Democrats and Independents could cause mischief in Republican primaries—obviously the Republicans wanted to minimize that damage.