Trump Loses Three Ill Delegates with "Foreign" Last Names
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2016 2:17 pm
Apparently in Illinois, voters in the Republican primary actually voted three times: once for the presidential candidate and then twice more for the delegates and alternates in their Congressional district. After the list of candidates there was a lengthier list of delegate candidates (three per presidential candidate), with instructions to vote for no more than three total delegates. The name of the delegates appeared like this:
http://www.leecountyil.com/pdf/election ... _15_16.pdf
In Illinois, the statewide winner (Trump) got 15 delegates, while the three highest ranking delegates in each district were also elected. In theory, all three Trump or Cruz delegates in the same district should receive roughly the same number of votes. It's possible some voters might have been confused and only voted for one delegate, but in that case, the errors should have been randomly distributed. In actuality, some of Trump's delegates received substantially fewer votes than others in the same district. In three cases, this actually made a difference, and he received three fewer delegates than he should have. In the worst example, in the 13th district, a Trump delegate named Raja Sadiq received nearly 8,000 votes (25%) fewer than another Trump delegate named Doug Hartmann. As a result, Sadiq lost the election from that district. Similarly, in the 6th district, a Trump delegate named Nabi Fakroddin received almost 5,000 votes (14%) fewer than one named Paul Minch. Fakroddin also lost. This phenomenon did not show up for any of the other candidates' delegates.
Anyone see a pattern here?
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/tru ... delegates/
So, in this case, people wanting to vote for Trump would cast their ballots for the first Bored members shown, while those wanting to vote for Cruz would vote for the Bobs and myself.FOR DELEGATE TO THE
NATIONAL NOMINATING CONVENTION
XXX CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
(PLEASE NOTE: Next to the name of each candidate for delegate appears
in parentheses the candidate's preference for President of the United States
or the word "uncommitted".)
(Vote for not more than three)
( ) BackinTexas (Trump)
( ) FlockofSeagulls (Trump)
( ) Spock (Trump)
( ) Bob Juch (Cruz)
( ) Bob Numbers (Cruz)
( ) SSS (Cruz)
http://www.leecountyil.com/pdf/election ... _15_16.pdf
In Illinois, the statewide winner (Trump) got 15 delegates, while the three highest ranking delegates in each district were also elected. In theory, all three Trump or Cruz delegates in the same district should receive roughly the same number of votes. It's possible some voters might have been confused and only voted for one delegate, but in that case, the errors should have been randomly distributed. In actuality, some of Trump's delegates received substantially fewer votes than others in the same district. In three cases, this actually made a difference, and he received three fewer delegates than he should have. In the worst example, in the 13th district, a Trump delegate named Raja Sadiq received nearly 8,000 votes (25%) fewer than another Trump delegate named Doug Hartmann. As a result, Sadiq lost the election from that district. Similarly, in the 6th district, a Trump delegate named Nabi Fakroddin received almost 5,000 votes (14%) fewer than one named Paul Minch. Fakroddin also lost. This phenomenon did not show up for any of the other candidates' delegates.
Anyone see a pattern here?
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/tru ... delegates/