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Was on Facebook today and stumbled onto the website of one of the groups attempting to unbind delegates on first vote at the convention...Seems they are making an effort to sway the delegates with petitions and emails... Website had all kinds of helpful information to contact rules committee members. Of course, they were intending to try to get the delegates to ignore the will of the voters...I figured some here at FR might want to use the list for other than the intended purpose ;) On some of the FR threads posted this week regarding unbinding the delegates, people asked...

Donald Trump has a point. (Yes, you read that correctly.) After getting shut out at the Colorado conventions, Trump has been complaining that the Republican primary process is undemocratic and rigged. . . .

As you probably know, Congressional Delegates in PA (54 total) are unbound. They can vote for whoever they like regardless of who wins their districts... A voter will vote for their preference for president and then also vote for 3 delegates to represent their district. However those delegates are not obligated to vote for whoever won their district, and the ballot does not give any indication of who the delegate will support if elected. I have been trying to find delegates in my district 18th who have stated publicly where they stand... SO far I have the following Linton -...

FARGO, N.D. — Ted Cruz’s preferred candidates won the vast majority of convention delegates available in North Dakota over the weekend, taking 18 of 25 slots in the state in another show of organizational strength over Donald Trump. It’s still not clear how loyal all of Cruz’s slate will be if the Republican nomination heads to a contested convention in Cleveland, as several included on it told POLITICO they were only leaning toward Cruz, or simply opposed to Trump. But the result was bad news for Trump, who may need unbound delegates like those in North Dakota to lift him...