I think the American public should know the rules concerning the delegates and how they can vote one way but are able to change their minds and switch to the person not receiving the majority votes. Does anyone have that bit of
information.
I understand Donald Trump just “won” NY, but cruz is in PA working to gather delegates for himself, is it voted by the citizens of PA, or appointed by the DC republican “leaders”. What can Trump do, should cruz win PA, can Trump’s people, go into PA and change the delegate votes from cruz to Trump?
Wherever Trump has won the majority of votes and delegates, cruz has his people in that area taking away delegate votes from Trump to cruz. I would like to know how. Is it by states or America Wide? I just leaned that SUPER DELEGATES are picked who gave the most money to the “cauz” or were appointed by the republican party of each state and those party elites. Am I reading this right?
Generally "bound" delegates are bound for the first vote at the convention. After the first vote, they are free to change to whomever they want.
I understand Donald Trump just won NY, but cruz is in PA working to gather delegates for himself, is it voted by the citizens of PA, or appointed by the DC republican leaders. What can Trump do, should cruz win PA, can Trumps people, go into PA and change the delegate votes from cruz to Trump?
Rule 8.4 of the Pennsylvania GOP bylaws (link) state that the delegates are unbound. So each campaign can attempt to woo delegates.
Wherever Trump has won the majority of votes and delegates, cruz has his people in that area taking away delegate votes from Trump to cruz. I would like to know how. Is it by states or America Wide? I just leaned that SUPER DELEGATES are picked who gave the most money to the cauz or were appointed by the republican party of each state and those party elites. Am I reading this right?
Each state's party has its own rules, but there are a couple of things you can look at:
I think what you're seeing the Cruz ground game do is to influence who gets picked to be delegates to the national convention. They will be bound on the first ballot to vote as their state voted, but afterwards, they can switch their vote.
What would prevent the Trump camp from staying engaged in these states to make sure that they have delegates friendly to them selected to go to the national convention?
Messed up system, I realize, but the only way to fix it is to change the rules in each state party's bylaws to have voters pick the delegates at primary/caucus time.
In PA the winner of the primary gets 17 bound delegates. I think they’re only bound on the first ballot. The remaining 54 are elected on primary night but there is no indication on the ballot to whom they are bound. Each candidate needs a ground game in PA in every district and to some extent in every precinct if possible. They need to recruit delegate candidates who would vote for their candidate and then let the voters know on election day who those candidates are. It’s a very intense process.