The Republican Party National Committee meets later this week to vote on a proposal to change rules and dates for presidential primaries and caucuses. The proposal needs a two-thirds vote. See this story. Thanks to Rick Hasen’s ElectionLawBlog for the link.
Delegates award by percentage. Finally some of the second tier candidates will have a chance.
Not that the GOP is going to be the solution to anything real soon, but they should have regional primaries every 3 weekends (during prez election years). Regional Primaries would cut down on travel costs. It would be set up so that on a rotational basis every 4 years, the first set of primaries would consist of the southeastern states, then the southwestern states, then the midwest, northeast, and pacific states. Rotating the order the regions go in every 4 years would prevent a candidate from a specific region always getting an early lead in the delegate count. It would also prevent Iowa and NH from having such a large input on which candidate would receive the nomination.
Uniform definition of Elector in ALL of the U.S.A.
P.R. and App.V. = NO party hack caucuses, primaries and conventions are needed — where the EVIL back room folks make their EVIL deals — the deals which have set up things now for Civil W-A-R II.