(March 7, 2016 at 12:47 pm)Tiberius Wrote: What are the rules concerning how delegates can vote? There was an episode of The West Wing once where there were 3 Democratic candidates and none of them got the required amount of votes before the convention, so there was a load of infighting and delegates who suddenly decided to switch their votes to a 4th candidate.
Is the Republican system any better? Are delegates required to vote for whomever the voters told them to support, or are they free to change their minds? Or was The West Wing episode more fictional than fact in that sense?
Here, Divi Tiberio. You'll probably find this fascinating.
http://lawnewz.com/important/how-the-gop...delegates/
Quote:So here’s how Trump could still lose according to a variety of election law experts with whom we spoke. The delegates could vote to change the convention rules even BEFORE the first round of balloting takes place. That’s right, in the days leading up to the convention, the RNC Rules Committee could recommend rules changes to the Convention Rules Committee. That committee could tweak the recommendations but they they would ultimately have to send the new rules to the floor of the convention for a vote by the delegates. If the delegates vote to change the rules so as to ‘unbind’ themselves, then they could vote for whoever they wanted even in that first round.
