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Michigan GOP changes delegate award after vote

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Michigan GOP changes delegate award after vote

The Associated Press: Michigan GOP changes delegate award after vote

By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN, Associated Press – 18 minutes ago

Michigan GOP officials have voted to change the way they will award 30 delegates from the presidential primary, a day after the tally showed native son Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum each getting 15.

The Michigan Republican Party Credentials Committee voted 4-2 Wednesday night to award 16 delegates to Romney and 14 to Santorum.


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The way the party rules are written, the final two delegates were supposed to be awarded proportionally, based on the statewide vote. That would result in one delegate apiece, giving each candidate a total of 15 delegates.

Instead, the credentials committee said a new rule adopted Feb. 4 was written incorrectly, and the party intended all along to give both delegates to the winner of the statewide vote — in this case, Romney.

The Santorum campaign said it would appeal the ruling and, in an email, referred to the turn of events as an "election scandal."
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Romney tied in his own home-state, but get the outcome amended. Roofles. This will probably piss a LOT of Republican voters off. It's like Al Gore in Flordia . . . Let's count all the votes people, as long as they're for me.
 
BooRadley said:
Michigan GOP changes delegate award after vote

The Associated Press: Michigan GOP changes delegate award after vote

By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN, Associated Press – 18 minutes ago



Romney tied in his own home-state, but get the outcome amended. Roofles. This will probably piss a LOT of Republican voters off. It's like Al Gore in Flordia . . . Let's count all the votes people, as long as they're for me.
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If he ends up winning the nomination by 1 delegate, we'll consider it relevant.
 
rocket88 said:
If he ends up winning the nomination by 1 delegate, we'll consider it relevant.
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I still think the change should go into affect NEXT year because it was not done before they vote. Just because they did not like the outcome, does not give them the right to change it after.
 
soccerboy22 said:
I still think the change should go into affect NEXT year because it was not done before they vote. Just because they did not like the outcome, does not give them the right to change it after.
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That's fair, but considering it's 1 delegate...
 
Moderator's Warning:
Think this is better in the President Election section.
 
Yeah, I read about that and my first thought was "Why on earth is that legal?"
 
Deuce said:
Yeah, I read about that and my first thought was "Why on earth is that legal?"
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It's a party election, not a public election. Well, sort of at least. Not all of the general election laws apply to caucuses. Something even weirder than this, this year in Virginia, in order to vote in the Republican Primary, you had to sign an oath that you'll vote for whatever nominee the Republicans end up with in the General election. Hahaha. A *bunch* of people didn't vote because they couldn't make that pledge, not knowing who would ultimately win.

The hilarious part is that they did it to try to increase the VA GOP Primary relevance, and ultimately guaranteed it's irrelevance in so doing.
 
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