[EL] Florida to award delegates proportionally?

[Goldfeder, Jerry H.]

There is an issue, raised on this site over the weekend, that, while the RNC has "punished" Florida for its primary date by halving its delegation and limiting its credentials and other convention-related perks, the state might also be forced to award its delegates proportionally. The rationale for not having done so thus far was that Florida has already seen its delegation cut by 50% ("the state has been punished enough!"); the rationale for compelling proportionality is that such procedure was contemplated by the RNC Rules that Florida has broken, and to simply reduce its delegation without compelling the required proportionality would be to turn a blind-eye to the central offense.  The long and short of it is that a challenge to any winner-take-all result might ensue.

Jerry H. Goldfeder
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-----Original Message-----
From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Michael McDonald
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 10:15 AM
To: law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
Subject: [EL] Florida to award delegates proportionally?

Michael Steele on MSNBC just stated that he has learned that Florida will
award its delegates proportionally. Certainly an important development,
particularly for Gingrich, if true.

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Dr. Michael P. McDonald
Associate Professor, George Mason University
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

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