The media in its efforts to get a story has twisted this thing and nobody is looking at how the system really works.
Well golly gee....... That must be a first.
Don’t these delegates go to the state convention with no preference and from the state they select 18 delegates for the National which remain ‘uncommitted’? Then on the WA Primary day they select 19 delegates that go to the National as assigned based upon 1 delegate for each CD and 10 at large statewide results. Or something like that?
These delegates go to the County Convention first (I have 300 Delegates to my County Convention), were they debate and pass the County Party platform and elect delegates to the State Convention (11 for my County).
At the State Convention each Congressional District meets to elect 3 delegates (out of a few dozen, some from from each county in the CD) to the National Convention (where Presidential Preference or “First Choice” will be an issue).
The Primary Ballot will decide 19 delegates (or 51%) for the candidate by CD and the “at large”. That vote is on the 19th.