Unlike Democrats, the GOP allows state parties to allocate or bind the votes of each state’s three automatic delegates. Otherwise, all delegates are elected via convention or primary, and whose votes are bound by state party rules.
The complicated formula is how many delegates each state gets, not how they are selected.
The complicated formula is how many delegates each state gets, not how they are selected.
In that greenpapers link in my previous post, some examples: Idaho get 13 bonus delegates, Illinois get 2 bonus delegates, Indiana get 17 bonus delegates, Hawaii get 0 bonus delegates, Iowa get 5 bonus delegates, etc.
There are a total of 439 bonus delegates. That is a pretty large number considering that 1237 are required to win the nomination.