You don't get it ... do you? You know... it's not a felony if a bound delegate votes for someone else. It's not even a misdemeanor. It has happened before. Even electoral college electors have voted in opposition to the way they were "bound" to vote.
I can't believe that so many smart people here don't fully understand what is coming....
A "pledged" delegate is one who promises to vote a certain way and is likely to do so but can change their mind. But a "bound" delegate is simply automatically considered to have voted a certain way.
In the Republican convention process about 95% are bound in the first round.
I found This Washington Post piece to be pretty in depth at answering a lot of these kinds of details (although I am no fan of the Washington Post).
>You don’t get it ... do you? You know... it’s not a felony if a bound delegate votes for someone else. It’s not even a misdemeanor. It has happened before. Even electoral college electors have voted in opposition to the way they were “bound” to vote.
And if they do it, we’ll burn the party to the ground. Actually we won’t have to anything. The open corruption of the party will massively suppressed GOP voter turn out to the point the party will deflate like a balloon and lose the house, the senate, and a lot of states on top of the presidency.