EXCLUSIVE: Colorado Caucus Volunteers Ballot Errors Hurt Trump Could Have Violated State Rules

Breitbart ^ | April 15, 2016 | by Patrick Howley

[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:

[dragnet2]

I am starting to think Trump got more out of Colorado than Cruz did.

[Leaning Right]

Who else would they chose, Trump?

I would have guessed Kasich.

[taketheredpill]

He lost thanks to profound critical thinkers such as you. See tagline.

[taketheredpill]

He didn’t inherit it, he courted it. See tagline. He is it.

[taketheredpill]

See tagline. Slick Teddy thanks you for your juvenile excuses for his hypocritical actions. The GOPe thanks you for your blind support.

[taketheredpill]

Read tagline again and enjoy. You are sick of libs, huh? Interesting, because they thank you for your support.

[tennmountainman]

It was rigged.

Not for Cruz, but against Trump.

Cruz just happened to benefit from the GOP rigging.

[sickoflibs]

RE:”Read tagline again and enjoy. You are sick of libs, huh? Interesting, because they thank you for your support”

Trump is a lib and I sure DON”T support him.

[ConservativeWarrior]

Quite a tagline, genius.

Cruz is the one splitting the GOP vote. And he has ZERO chance of winning the nomination, whether via first ballot or GOPe anointment.

[taketheredpill]

You must be the most intellectually vapid Cruz supporter here. You are unconvincing, but instead annoying. In fact, so much so, that I present the following for your reading plessure:

Slick Teddy
Ted Luz
Pious Ted
Jeb Cruz
Pervy Ted
Fraud Cruz
Ted Douche
Rising of the Priesthood Ted
Beck’s boyfriend (maybe sickoflibs?)
Rafael Cruz
Canada Cruz
Cowardly Cruz
GOPe KY boy Cruz

[sickoflibs]

RE:"You must be the most intellectually vapid Cruz supporter here"

You sound like Trump the entertainer.

[taketheredpill]

No, you instead support frauds who end up giving you the same result of your hated libs over and over again, so what does that make you? By the way, have you considered decaf? Chill out.

[sickoflibs]

RE:”No, you instead support frauds who end up giving you the same result of your hated libs over and over again, so what does that make you? By the way, have you considered decaf? Chill out.”

Trump is just doing his good friend Hillary's bidding

The Clintons are covering both parties by getting him to run.

[taketheredpill]

Are we on the same page here, because I loathe GOPe Errand Boy Cruz.

[taketheredpill]

Best post in weeks. HILARIOUS.

[Souled_Out]

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...they needed an insider to be a place holder for the delegates and that turns out to be Cruz...

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Nailed It!

Cruz is playing the role of the turd in the punch bowl, deluding the gullible to join the evil in the destruction of America.

[taketheredpill]

Exactly

[ConservativeWarrior]

My reply was to Responsibility2nd.

I’m with you in your loathing. I can’t believe how many support that twit.

[TigersEye]

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.

How did the Cruz supporters figure it out then?

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

I can't say why they were changed specifically in August, but what really changed was the RNC. In all previously years, the Colorado caucus straw poll had been non-binding, but the RNC apparently passed a rule saying that such straw polls had to be binding. That was the change. And it was in response to that change -- which meant that they could no longer hold a non-binding straw poll -- that Colorado decided to get rid of the straw poll.

So the bottom line is that Colorado chose it's delegates the exact same way they'd been doing for years.

I personally don't like caucus systems, although I understand why parties have them. But there is no indication that Colorado chose to stay with caucuses versus a primary because of Trump.