HELP Does this Say Massachusetts delegates bound Is it the Law
I just read through the Massachusetts Republican party plan. For the election of delegates. Below are the 3 laws they site in the plan which they say are bound to Romney and MCcain. They did not give RP any delegates or standing because he did not recieve 15% of the popular vote. Will we be able to unbind these delegates at the caucus, and does any of the below even resemble law to you. It seems the party and state are in bed with one another here. What would you do and how would you handle this at the caucus? Please help out I am the coordinator for my district and have never attended a caucus before. If you could please help me keep this up until my final meeting on thursday
Chapter 53: Section 70B. Delegates to national conventions; election; number
Section 70B. In any year in which candidates for presidential electors are to be elected, the selection of delegates and alternate delegates to national conventions of political parties shall be by that system adopted by the state committee, provided such system shall not include the placing of the names of delegates on the presidential primary ballot; and provided, further, that the distribution of delegates under any such system shall reflect the preference expressed by the voters on the presidential preference portion of the ballot at the presidential primary. The system adopted by the state committee shall be set forth in written rules and procedures covering all aspects of the delegate selection process and a copy of such rules and procedures shall be filed with the state secretary on or before October first of the year preceding the year in which presidential electors are to be elected. The number of district delegates and alternate district delegates, not less than two from each congressional district, and the number of delegates and alternate delegates at large shall be fixed by the state committee, who shall give notice thereof to the state secretary on or before the first Tuesday in January. At such primaries, members of the state, ward and town committees shall also be chosen as provided in chapter fifty-two.
PROVISIONS APPLYING TO PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES
Chapter 53: Section 70E. Order of names on ballots; statement of preference; preferential vote count
Section 70E. The state secretary shall cause to be placed on the official ballot for use at presidential primaries the names of those candidates or potential candidates for the office of president of the United States whom he shall have determined to be generally advocated or recognized in national news media throughout the United States, the names of any other candidates or potential candidates for nomination for president whose names are proposed therefor by nomination papers prepared and furnished by the state secretary, signed in the aggregate by at least twenty-five hundred voters, and the names of those candidates or potential candidates for nomination for president whose names appear on written lists signed by the chairman of the state committees of the political parties, arranged in such order as may be determined by lot under the direction of the state secretary, a blank space in which the voter may, if he does not vote for any of the candidates for president whose names are printed on the ballot insert the name of any person of his choice as a candidate for president and a blank space in which a voter may vote no preference. A vote both for no preference and for a candidate whose name has been inserted by the voter shall be counted as a vote for that candidate. The chairman of the state committee of a political party and the state secretary shall submit lists or prepare lists of candidates for president, as aforesaid, no later than the first Friday in January and shall notify each such candidate forthwith, by registered mail, of the presence of his name on said lists. No name shall be removed from said lists, nor from the ballot, unless such candidate shall file with the state secretary an affidavit stating that he does not desire his name printed upon said ballot at the forthcoming presidential primary. Such affidavit shall be filed with the state secretary no later than five o’clock post meridian on the second Friday in January.
The names of candidates for state committee shall next be placed upon the ballot in the manner provided in section thirty-four. The names of candidates for ward or town committee appearing in nomination papers containing three or more nominations shall next be placed upon said ballot, arranged in groups and in the same order as in the nomination papers. The order in which the groups shall appear shall be determined by lot in the manner provided in section thirty-four. The names of candidates appearing in nomination papers containing one or two nominations shall follow, alphabetically arranged.
There shall also be printed on the ballot appropriate instructions to aid the voter with respect to expressing his preference for a candidate for nomination as president. Election officers in the presidential primaries, in counting and tabulating the votes showing the voters’ preference for president, shall disregard the omission or inaccuracy of initials, the omission, inaccuracy or misspelling of Christian names, and the misspelling of surnames, if the intent of the voter to express a preference for any particular individual can be ascertained. Such statements of voters of presidential preference shall be counted, tabulated and entered in the records of election officers of votes cast.
PART I. ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT
TITLE VIII. ELECTIONS
CHAPTER 53. NOMINATIONS, QUESTIONS TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE VOTERS, PRIMARIES AND CAUCUSES
PROVISIONS APPLYING TO PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES
Chapter 53: Section 70I. Delegates and alternate delegates to national conventions; voting for president on first roll call
Section 70I. If there is a roll call vote for president at the national convention of a political party, all delegates and alternate delegates whose selection is subject by party rule to the approval of a presidential candidate shall vote on the first such roll call for that presidential candidate unless released by such candidate.
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It's hard to make
heads or tails of all that.Don't worry about it,just go get elected to be a delegate and go from there.
first
was the primary, now it is the local district caucus. I dont think we are having a statewide convention. I will double check though
It sounds like you already had
your caucus.Now are you having
your next meeting to choose
delegates to go to the state convention?If that is the case,
I don't think you need to worry
about that.Just get chosen to go on to state.Then at the state
convention you can write up a plank to have the delegates unbound.It sounds like you only have to vote for Romney and McCain on the first ballot at the national convention.I'm a delegate in Wa..Will be going
to Spokane in 2 months for the state convention.
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sorry folks bumping my own post
Dr Parent
Take a look please Tom from Boston This is what I have been asking you on Revolution Padio
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Sorry, I can't help answer your questions...but I'll be at the site for my District to vote for RP delegates on Saturday!