On the night of your state PRIMARY vote, on PRIMARY NIGHT, you go to your little PRECINCT meeting, RIGHT after the polls close at 7:00 PM.
(Usually there is a sign on the door, when you day vote, saying where, and when, your precinct meeting is held, on that very same evening of the vote.)
At the PRECINCT meeting you will volunteer to go to your COUNTY convention, scheduled for a certain upcoming date, and you go there, as a delegate from your little precinct.
At the COUNTY convention, you volunteer to go to your STATE CONVENTION, as a delegate from your district.
At the STATE convention you and your other county delegates will be divided and some of you will represent TRump, or Cruz, or Rubio, etc.
At the STATE convention you come as a district delegate, from different counties, AND as delegates for different candidates.
At the STATE convention is also where your state platform is designed and recommendations are voted on, to send up to the NATIONAL convention.
At STATE, you will hear persuasive arguments to support another candidate, and you will switch your vote, or you will stick to represent those who sent you there for your candidate X.
YOU are a delegate right up to the last minute, depending on your state rules, and can change or stick with your candidate.
At STATE, you can volunteer to be a STATE delegate or an “alternate” delegate to go to the NATIONAL CONVENTION in wherever.. be it Philadelphia or Denver, etc. You pay for room and board and air, and transportation, everything, but get a nice room rate in a nice hotel.
Marcella, this little version is for TEXAS, an open primary state. Can you add anything, for Idaho being much different in precinct, county, state or national convention process?
Do you mean Idaho or Iowa?
Okay, you are speaking to someone in Idaho. Let me check Idaho and I’ll get back to you.
Thank you for the information on the process. Didn’t know it was so involved. Will check into it here locally.