Posted on 04/15/2016 10:33:27 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Volunteers at the Colorado Republican Assembly are coming forward with evidence to indicate that their state’s delegate selection process was riddled with errors that disadvantaged some Donald Trump supporters who were running to become national delegates.
The errors could have violated state bylaws significantly enough that some of the results could be contested, according to the volunteers.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) took all 34 of Colorado’s delegates last week in a process that closed down traditional caucus voting to the public.
A handful of volunteers spoke to Breitbart News about the process.
“I’m the former Chairman of the Pueblo County Republican Party and the person who developed the Slates for National Delegates for the Trump team. The Colorado GOP website was filled with errors posted about the National Delegates,” Nancy Mizel told Breitbart News.
Mizel took a photograph of a ballot in Congressional District 7 that included ONLY the ballot numbers of delegate candidates, NOT the names of the candidates as required by state bylaws.
(Photo: Becky Mizel)
But Article Xiii of the Colorado Republican Convention bylaws (Assemblies and Conventions Section A) show that a delegate candidate must be identified alongside the name of the presidential candidate that he or she is pledged to support, so long as the delegate candidate discloses that information:
Candidates for national convention delegate need not identify the presidential candidate they are pledged to support, but may do so at their option. The ballot shall include the presidential candidate each candidate for national delegate is pledged to support, or shall indicate that the candidate for national delegate is unpledged. CRC Bylaws, Art. XIII, § A(5)(c).
Here are stories of three of the volunteers in their own words:
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
No one planned for Jeb to be sidelined, but Trump did it anyway.
So Jeb dropped out.
Since he has suspended his campaign, they needed an insider to be a place holder for the delegates and that turns out to be Cruz, who will control those delegates until the Convention, then, after a few slight of hand tricks, they are slated to go back to Jeb, or maybe Mitt.
It’s corrupTed.
So Cruz inherited JEB!’s multi million dollar ground game nation wide?
So, making delegates to the assembly look on a different piece of paper to figure out the ballot number that they need to vote on their ballot favors Cruz delegates...
Is he saying Trump delegates are less intelligent?
To be fair to Cruz, he's not an insider. The establishment and the state party hierarchy may want his delegates to eventually support Jeb or more likely Kasich, but Cruz himself is only hated a little less than Trump by the establishment, or perhaps they think it will be easier to push Cruz than Trump aside if he is the last man standing.
Keep waving that flag.
You guys think you are really endearing yourselves to people by sacking up with the GOPe and trying to bypass the voters.
| April 15, 2016 at 10:35:08 AM MDT |
I searched first, if the title is over 100 characters and is truncated it is impossible to guess what words were eliminated.
How long?
How long will the Trumpsters here cry and whine over Trump’s own failures in Colorado?
Weeks? Months? Years?
Did you read the article?
Why comment about the intelligence of the Trump voters?
What room exactly is Ted the smartest in since he’s not too bright in the rest of them.
What has he been bribed with I wonder, to sell himself out like he is doing?
By the time this election is over, the U.S. will be the brunt of jokes from standup comics in Nigeria.
It wasn't a failure. It succeeded in exposing the how the fix was in from the beginning. Cruz just happened to be the beneficiary. For now.
It's not whining. It's shining a spot light on the rampant corruption of the Republican party at the stage and national level.
Donald Trump on hitting protesters: I will pay the legal fees (video)
There's no doubt the whole thing was a clusterf*ck. But there doesn't seem to be any evidence that it was either intentional or biased against any one candidate.
Its only fair when Trump wins.
If he loses it must be cheating, stealing, unfair, rigged, stacked,...
'When Don gets his way then it must be OK.', Trump's theme
You poor little snowflake.
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