How the GOP Broke its Own Rules and State Law in Colorado Fiasco

JimBowie1958

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I wanted to see some thing of a reliable source documenting this stuff, and now Breitbart has it out.

This collection of crooks ran a rigged caucus that wasnt even a caucus and was in direct violation of Colorado law.

EXCLUSIVE: Colorado Volunteers: Ballot Errors Hurt Trump Delegate Candidates, Could Have Violated State Rules - Breitbart

Volunteers at the Colorado Republican Assembly are coming forward with evidence to indicate that their state’s delegate selection process was riddled with errors that disadvantaged some Donald Trump supporters who were running to become national delegates.
The errors could have violated state bylaws significantly enough that some of the results could be contested, according to the volunteers....

Mizel took a photograph of a ballot in Congressional District 7 that included ONLY the ballot numbers of delegate candidates, NOT the names of the candidates as required by state bylaws....

But Article Xiii of the Colorado Republican Convention bylaws (Assemblies and Conventions Section A) show that a delegate candidate must be identified alongside the name of the presidential candidate that he or she is pledged to support, so long as the delegate candidate discloses that information:

Candidates for national convention delegate need not identify the presidential candidate they are pledged to support, but may do so at their option. The ballot shall include the presidential candidate each candidate for national delegate is pledged to support, or shall indicate that the candidate for national delegate is unpledged. CRC Bylaws, Art. XIII, § A(5)(c)....

JaJack, a Trump supporter, tells Breitbart News that she was not allowed to vote at the State Assembly:

I was a delegate. I pledged support for Donald Trump. In the Arapahoe County section they had designated seating areas for your last name. When it came time to pass the ballots out, someone from the Colorado GOP came around and started calling out names. When you received your ballot you received a mark on your name.

She went directly from K to I and skipped the Js. She said she didn’t have the Js….

JaJack said that she found out that another woman in Arapahoe County later told her that she had her ballot, but by then it was too late to vote....

While I was putting together the National Delegate Slates for Mr. Trump on April 5th or 6th, copied and pasted from the Colorado GOP website – I noticed my name was missing from the website as being a national delegate candidate. Even though I had submitted timely paperwork. I called the GOP HQ. They said it was an error and they would correct it. Gave me ballot number 602 over the phone. I assumed my delegate name was corrected and added although even as of Thursday my name was still not on the website as a delegate.....

I witnessed several Trump delegates coming to the volunteer table, confused and frustrated, asking what numbers they should be using to vote for people on the Trump slate. While I was helping one gentleman fill out his ballot, I noticed errors/misprints on the ballots themselves (Exhibit E-1, E-2), e.g. two number 523’s but no 513, two 378’s, but no 379. I also noticed there were 948 numbers on the ballot, but as far as I could tell delegate numbers only went up to 619.

One woman reported that she was very angry that numbers corresponding to Trump delegates were left off the ballot. I do not have specifics on this, other than #379, Nicolas Robert Neitzel…

…Another woman/Trump supporter, reported that she was an alternate delegate and was elevated to delegate, and then was told they made a mistake and the delegate credential she had been given was ripped up. She said she was elevated again and then dropped back down to alternate a 2nd time. She was visibly upset, said I feel like I’m in a third world country and left without filling out her ballot…

Overall, what I witnessed appeared to be very chaotic, confusing and lacking in integrity. I saw delegates walking around with ballots and wondered if anyone was keeping track of them. Was there anything to stop someone from getting some extra ballots as they were roaming about and putting them in the ballot boxes?
 
Your proof is an article from a slanted site that says some violation could have happened?

Because of a typo.

Nuff said
 
I agree Breibart is usually not a reliable source, but I dunno about this one...

We do know, that Mr. Trump got ZERO delegates and honestly, even with supposed typo's and rules not followed on some etc, at least a handful should have done everything correctly and been elected as delegates.

So that to me, says some sort of shenanigans was going on....

The problem is Trump and Trumpettes have cried wolf or foul so many times with a lot of whine and cheese to go with it, that no one believes them anymore, even if they are now telling the truth....

That being said, I would not doubt that the GOP did something like this cheating....

They cheated in my state in 2012 and gave Ron Paul votes to Romney and I believe Santorum....so the GOP/RNC in my opinion, are not above something like this....
 
Trump's people were incompetent, as they were in several other states. lack of competence on Trump's part is not proof of veniality on Cruz's part.

The GOP would not be venial for Cruz. No way, no how. Kasich would be the one to get delegates from veniality on the part of the GOP, then Trump. Buy never any veniality for Cruz. they would give Delegates to Hillary before they would Cruz
 
The problem is Trump and Trumpettes have cried wolf or foul so many times with a lot of whine and cheese to go with it, that no one believes them anymore, even if they are now telling the truth....

Examples? It seems to me that most of what he has said has been accurate.
 
I agree Breibart is usually not a reliable source, but I dunno about this one...

We do know, that Mr. Trump got ZERO delegates and honestly, even with supposed typo's and rules not followed on some etc, at least a handful should have done everything correctly and been elected as delegates.

So that to me, says some sort of shenanigans was going on....

The problem is Trump and Trumpettes have cried wolf or foul so many times with a lot of whine and cheese to go with it, that no one believes them anymore, even if they are now telling the truth....

That being said, I would not doubt that the GOP did something like this cheating....

They cheated in my state in 2012 and gave Ron Paul votes to Romney and I believe Santorum....so the GOP/RNC in my opinion, are not above something like this....

Why would we expect anything other than a cruz sweep? He was organized he had his slate identified and to his people which out numbered trumps. Trump kept screwing up information on his slate.
 
I agree Breibart is usually not a reliable source, but I dunno about this one...

We do know, that Mr. Trump got ZERO delegates and honestly, even with supposed typo's and rules not followed on some etc, at least a handful should have done everything correctly and been elected as delegates.

So that to me, says some sort of shenanigans was going on....

The problem is Trump and Trumpettes have cried wolf or foul so many times with a lot of whine and cheese to go with it, that no one believes them anymore, even if they are now telling the truth....

That being said, I would not doubt that the GOP did something like this cheating....

They cheated in my state in 2012 and gave Ron Paul votes to Romney and I believe Santorum....so the GOP/RNC in my opinion, are not above something like this....

Why would we expect anything other than a cruz sweep? He was organized he had his slate identified and to his people which out numbered trumps. Trump kept screwing up information on his slate.
Colorado is a more liberal State in many ways, and I just can NOT fathom that there are not hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters in the Republican Party that would not want themselves represented in the Party or to be so haphazard about their delegate applications etc to not at least have gained some delegates...
 
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Colorado is a more liberal State in many ways, and I just can NOT fathom that there are not hundreds of thousands of Cruz supporters in the Republican Party that would not want themselves represented in the Party or to be so haphazard about their delegate applications etc to not at least have gained some delegates...

Do you mean Trump supporters here instead of Cruz supporters?
 
Colorado is a more liberal State in many ways, and I just can NOT fathom that there are not hundreds of thousands of Cruz supporters in the Republican Party that would not want themselves represented in the Party or to be so haphazard about their delegate applications etc to not at least have gained some delegates...

Do you mean Trump supporters here instead of Cruz supporters?
yes, I thought I wrote Trump...i'll edit it!
 
I am reposting this from another thread. It is a convenient table of Trump lies vs the truth. Trump, like Goebbles (sp?) believes in lies shouted in infinite variety.

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Trump's people were incompetent, as they were in several other states. lack of competence on Trump's part is not proof of veniality on Cruz's part.

The GOP would not be venial for Cruz. No way, no how. Kasich would be the one to get delegates from veniality on the part of the GOP, then Trump. Buy never any veniality for Cruz. they would give Delegates to Hillary before they would Cruz

I'll show you incompetence, Cruz is part of the organization that racked up a $19 trillion dollar national debt top that incompetence.
 

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