Maybe Cruz ought not get too comfortable with those delegates. They may be challenged.
“Another issue that could lead to a challenge by Trump is the fact that Trump actually won at least one straw poll vote earlier this year, and these results could be binding.
National Republican rules state that if Colorado held a straw poll, delegates would be bound to the candidate for whom they voted. That’s one reason Colorado Republicans decided against having a straw poll–in addition to concerns that too many people would show up.
But some Colorado precincts held straw polls anyway, arguably flouting the rules, calling the straw-poll votes symbolic. But straw polls are arguably by definition. And holding them could have violated GOP rules.
Trump didn’t win all of the straw polls held in Colorado, but he won at least one of them, in Adams County, according to a report in The Denver Post.
So Trump’s possible challenge at the national convention could also include questions delegates he should have won due to the symbolic straw-poll process.”
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Note: The GOP national rules also state that if any state delegate selection process violates the national rules, the penalty is the disqualification of 1/2 of that state’s delegates. So, ironically, the fact that some precincts went “rogue” and held straw poles not authorized by the August change in the rules might constitute a violation of the national rules, and result in a forfeiture of 1/2 of the state’s 30 delegates.
Bring on the lawyers.
Oboy.... 2016 version of hanging Chad’s.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3419802/posts?page=25#25
1776 Revolution was over taxation without representation.
2016, we still have taxation without representation .
PING!!
Maybe Cruz ought not get too comfortable with those delegates. They may be challenged.
Oboy.... 2016 version of hanging Chad’s.
Post 25
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3419802/posts?page=25#25
Thanks, WildHighlander57
Interesting. Thanks for the post. Best election ever. We have a Canadian, a billionaire, and leather chaps wearing governor.