Usually everyone at the convention votes for the winner who came into the convention with a clear majority.
A person committed to Paul who changes his vote when it is inconsequential is inconsequential.
Ultimately, in a contested convention everyone is unbound and there will always be horsetrading. It’s politics. There must be delegates who change in order to resolve an impass and arrive at a majority.
Tell me these delegates were chosen wen last year, OK so was cruz talking to them last year ? Nah did ‘t think so, but I ma interested in the so called rules.
Delegates chosen in CO by whom, the voter you said, OPK then if one of my son was in CO and is in the marines based overseas are absentee ballots sent out to allow him to vote or are people working out of state allowed to vote for these delegates?
Agreed. As you noted, in a contested convention, delegates must eventually switch votes in order to give someone an eventual majority.
The problem is that many states allow a switch on the very first ballot. So a voter could end up picking a Paul delegate who never votes for Paul at all. That seems fundamentally wrong.
(By the way, I picked Paul in my example to avoid any Trump/Cruz/Kasich bias.)