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2012 RNC rules RE: delegates & "presidential preference votes" expire 7/18...first day of convention
Arcane RNC Rule Could Be Last Resort for #NeverTrumpers
RNC rules committee member Curly Haugland says delegates should vote their conscience — primary voters be damned
And while there may be an appetite among the surviving #NeverTrump-ers on Twitter and in other corners of the Internet to block Trump's nomination, there isn't much evidence of the kind of vast conspiracy to which Stone refers. There's really only one prominent member of the RNC publicly advocating for a change to the party's rules: a pool-supply salesman from North Dakota named Curly Haugland.
In March, as talk of a contested convention was revving up, Haugland wrote a letter to all RNC members explaining that, contrary to popular opinion, delegates are not bound on the first ballot to vote for the candidate selected by voters in their state or district. "NEWS FLASH: All Republican Delegates to the 2016 Republican National Convention are Unbound!" he wrote.
In reality, it's a little more complicated than that. The 2012 RNC rules do, in fact, say that delegates are bound by presidential preference votes in their state, and that the votes of any delegate who votes otherwise will not be recognized. But those rules expire on July 18th, the first day of 2016 convention.
The 2016 RNC rules will be decided at a meeting of the rules committee one week before the convention. That's where Haugland will lobby for the removal of language that binds delegates to state votes.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/arcane-rnc-rule-could-be-last-resort-for-nevertrumpers-20160511
RNC rules committee member Curly Haugland says delegates should vote their conscience — primary voters be damned
And while there may be an appetite among the surviving #NeverTrump-ers on Twitter and in other corners of the Internet to block Trump's nomination, there isn't much evidence of the kind of vast conspiracy to which Stone refers. There's really only one prominent member of the RNC publicly advocating for a change to the party's rules: a pool-supply salesman from North Dakota named Curly Haugland.
In March, as talk of a contested convention was revving up, Haugland wrote a letter to all RNC members explaining that, contrary to popular opinion, delegates are not bound on the first ballot to vote for the candidate selected by voters in their state or district. "NEWS FLASH: All Republican Delegates to the 2016 Republican National Convention are Unbound!" he wrote.
In reality, it's a little more complicated than that. The 2012 RNC rules do, in fact, say that delegates are bound by presidential preference votes in their state, and that the votes of any delegate who votes otherwise will not be recognized. But those rules expire on July 18th, the first day of 2016 convention.
The 2016 RNC rules will be decided at a meeting of the rules committee one week before the convention. That's where Haugland will lobby for the removal of language that binds delegates to state votes.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/arcane-rnc-rule-could-be-last-resort-for-nevertrumpers-20160511