A vote for Ted is a vote for Hillary and has been since FL and OH primary.”
Trump and his good friend Hillary are on the same side.
Posted on 04/15/2016 10:33:27 AM PDT by 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:
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Seriously? You don’t think that a communist approach of cancelling elections and letting the party leaders pick our candidate is wrong?
Let ‘em Van, the more they toss barbs at Trump and continue to attempt to paint teddy as the outsider, the more pathetic ted looks. No foresight whatsoever.
Another Hillary campaigner, paid or volunteer?
A vote for Ted is a vote for Hillary and has been since FL and OH primary.
We see a similar move in Utah. its coming. Cruz supporters will not understand it until it is too late.
Exactly.
Trump and his good friend Hillary are on the same side.
Did Trump complain about Oklahoma? NO, so right there alone shows you are full of crap.
The RNC instituted Rule 16 so that if a preference poll were to be held, the State Party would have to give the outcome some weighting that does not ignore the will of the voters.
By eliminating the preferential poll in Colorado, the only logical conclusion, and the reasoning given in several Denver Post articles, prove that the CO party wanted to allow their delegation to remain “unbound”.
By definition, that is disenfranchisement of presidential nomination voters, because it disallows voting for that office. Instead, the GOP decided to allow those who attended the caucus, only the election of UNDECLARED potential delegates.
That does not even meet the standard of direct election delegates.
Trump doesn't think they changed the rules because of him. He has said recently that the rules were changed to ensure Jeb. But since Jeb imploded and the CO GOPe was all in for #NeverTrump they gave the delegates to Cruz.
“So, making delegates to the assembly look on a different piece of paper to figure out the ballot number that they need to vote on their ballot favors Cruz delegates...”
I wonder what the “legal” term for the “ballot” is. Is it the actual piece of paper that you vote on, or is it the idea/list of delegates. “He is on the ballot.”
Here in Washington State we were given what is probably a standardized voting card that had a hundred circles and numbers. They went into a voting machine once, and then again as a double check. One guy had a laptop where he had a list of candidates showing up on the white screen. Other people came down from the bleachers to become candidates at the last minute. He added their names in.
We all had an 8x11 sheet of paper with the names and blank numbered spots to add in the new people.
Each person had 30 seconds to say their name, a bit about them, and what candidate they liked. But as in Colorado, they/we are not bound to a candidate as we go to the state convention. So that candidate’s name was not listed on the official computer entry. I saw most people taking notes on their piece of paper.
And then we all voted on the ballot. The hardest, trickiest, most challenging thing about our election was filling in the circle with black ink. I’m a bit OCD that way!
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