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Joe Biden. Bernie Sanders. Elizabeth Warren. Michael Bloomberg. Pete Buttigieg. Amy Klobuchar. Tulsi Gabbard. Total pledged delegates: 3, Delegates elected to the national convention pledged to a presidential candidate shall in all good conscience reflect the sentiments of those who elected them. No meetings, caucuses, conventions or primaries which constitute the first determining stage in the presidential nomination process the date of the primary in primary states, and the date of the first tier caucus in caucus states may be held prior to the first Tuesday in March or after the second Tuesday in June in the calendar year of the national convention.
At the political party national convention, each delegate to the national convention shall vote for the party's presidential nominee candidate who received the greatest number of votes in the presidential preference election until the candidate is nominated for the office of President of the United States by the convention, until the candidate releases the delegate from the delegate's obligation, until a candidate withdraws from the race or until one convention nominating ballot has been taken.
After a candidate is nominated, withdraws from the race, delegates are released or one ballot is taken, each delegate is free to vote as the delegate chooses, and no rule may be adopted by a delegation requiring the delegation to vote as a body or causing the vote of any delegate to go uncounted or unreported.
Section If, subsequent to the primary, a candidate to whom one or more of such party's delegates are allocated either dies or files with the secretary a written statement, by him signed, to the effect that he has released all Connecticut delegates committed to him, the commitment of any such delegate to the candidate shall be deemed to have been released. Any delegate to a national convention whose presidential candidate withdraws after being entitled to delegate votes pursuant to this article shall be an unpledged delegate to the national convention.
A delegate or alternate delegate selected from a congressional district to the national convention of a political party shall, on the first ballot at the national convention, support the candidate for President of the United States who received the highest number of votes in the congressional district at the primary election if the person is in fact a candidate at the convention.
A delegate-at-large or alternate delegate-at-large to the national convention is not required to support a specific candidate for President on any ballot at the convention. Each political party shall, on the first ballot at its national convention, cast this Commonwealth's vote for the candidates as determined by the primary or party caucus and calculated under this section or under party rules, whichever is applicable.
Provided, however, that in the event of the death or withdrawal of a candidate receiving votes under this section prior to the tabulation of the first ballot, any delegate votes allocated to such candidate shall be considered uncommitted.
Withdrawal shall mean notice in writing by the candidate to the chairman of the Kentucky delegation prior to the first ballot. If there is a roll call vote for president at the national convention of a political party, all delegates and alternate delegates whose selection is subject by party rule to the approval of a presidential candidate shall vote on the first such roll call for that presidential candidate unless released by such candidate. A national convention delegate shall be bound to vote for the presidential candidate for whom he or she designated commitment, if any, under section b and as certified by the presidential candidate or the presidential candidate's designee under this section before the delegate is elected as a national delegate until the end of the first ballot at the national convention.
However, a national convention delegate is released from that commitment by the withdrawal of that presidential candidate from contention for that party's nomination or by written release of that presidential candidate to the chairperson of the national convention, whichever is earliest.
Any person seeking to be elected as a delegate or alternate delegate to the national convention of a political party shall submit a filing form under this section regardless of the method of election used by the political party. The filing form for nomination of a candidate for election as a delegate or alternate delegate to the national convention of a political party shall 1 contain a statement of commitment to a candidate for the office of President of the United States or that he or she is uncommitted, 2 include a pledge swearing to support the candidate for President of the United States to which the candidate for delegate or alternate delegate to the national convention is committed until a such candidate receives less than thirty-five percent of the votes for nomination by such convention or releases the delegate from such commitment or b two convention nominating ballots have been taken, and 3 be filed with the Secretary of State.
The provisions of this section with regard to the manner of voting by the New Mexico delegations at the national party conventions apply only to the first nominating ballot cast at such conventions. Such delegations may be released prior to the first ballot from voting in the manner provided by this section upon death of the candidate or upon his written unconditional release of such votes allotted to him. Any votes so released shall be cast in the manner of votes allotted to the uncommitted category.
Section A It happened to Hillary Clinton in The outdated system persists and sometimes throws up shocking results. The US constitution allows any natural born citizen, who is at least 35 years old and a US resident for at least 14 years, to run for president. This time, more than 1, candidates , mostly obscure names, threw their hats into the ring, according to the Federal Election Commission.
But there will be only two names on the ballot — Trump and Biden. Primaries are state-level indirect elections in which candidates fight for delegates — individuals who represent their states at the national party convention, where the nominee is officially chosen.
The objective is to collect as many delegates as possible over the course of the primaries, which are designed to democratise the process by which presidential candidates are selected. Any citizen natural born or otherwise above age 18 can vote.
In most states, prisoners are not allowed to vote, and residents of US territories, like Puerto Rico, despite being citizens, cannot participate in the presidential elections beyond the primaries. Voters choose their preferred candidate either on election day at a polling station, or by voting early via mail or in person. Read more about the allocation of electoral votes. The District of Columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a State for purposes of the Electoral College under the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution.
Each candidate running for President in your State has his or her own group of electors known as a slate. Read more about the qualifications of the electors and restrictions on who the electors may vote for.
The general election is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. When you vote for a Presidential candidate you are actually voting for your candidate's preferred electors. Learn more about voting for the electors.
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