Convoluted Gilmore Senate Race Nomination Win

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Gilmore won by 65 tabulated votes. If you crunch the numbers, Gilmore only won because of a convoluted archaic voting system that can give each delegate voter the equivalent of anywhere from one to thirty votes or more.

The Formula: Eligible delegates (those who don't show up to the convention) divided by voting delegates (those who show up to the convention).

Example One: They divide the number of delegates from Area A, (who arrive at the Convention) into the total amount of eligible voting delegates from Area A (who didn't show up), and that number is the delegate strenth of Area A. If two delegates from Area A show up and there are 100 eligible delegates from Area A, then they divide 100 by two and get 50 votes per present delegate. Each Area A delegate's vote is worth 50 votes.

Example Two: They divide the number of delegates from Area B, (who arrive at the Convention) into the total amount of eligible voting delegates from Area B (who didn't show up), and that number is the delegate strenth of Area B. If five delegates from Area B show up and there are 50 eligible delegates from Area B, then they divide 50 by 5 and get 10 votes per present delegate. Each Area B delegate's vote is worth 10 votes.

Then, if Area A with only two people present (being worth 100 votes total) voted for Gilmore and Area B with five people present (being worth only 50 votes total) voted for Marshall,

then Gilmore's two voters had more power than Marshall's five voters.

With this system Marshall could have had more delegates (votes) at the Convention than Gilmore and still lost. I hope the 'actual delegate votes cast' is made public to see who won based on actual present delegate votes.

P.S. Gilmore won fare and square, as far as we know, based on the archaic vote tabulation syatem that the party usees to help far away counties that can't get all there delegates to the Convention. I say "If an area can't get their people interested enough to come to bad.

Let's do away with this archaic delegate vote welfare system, and have a straight vote at the Republican state Convention.

~Publius~