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Illinois primary
You go to the voting booth on Tuesday, intending to vote for a Republican for president. You make your choice. You mark your ballot completely with the black marker. Does that ensure that the candidate of your choice will actually receive any delegates from Illinois? Not really. Thats because, in Illinois, the real choice rests with the delegates. Thus, if you want Mitt Romney to win, you will have to vote for Kurt Diekelman for delegate, or someone else you may have never heard of.
To really make your vote count, you will have to drop down to the third and fourth decision on the ballot, where the delegates and alternates are selected. The delegates and alternates names are listed, together with the candidate they support. There is an irony this time out that Illinois, regarded as one of the most Democratic states in the union for presidential politics and the home of President Barack Obama, could have an impact on the Republican presidential nomination. Illinois will have 69 votes at the Republican National Convention, scheduled for Aug. 27-30 in Tampa Bay. The Illinois count includes two bonus delegates one for electing a congressional delegation in 2010 that includes a majority of Republicans and one for electing U.S. Sen Mark Kirk.
Kankakee County Clerk Bruce Clark explained that 54 of those delegates will be selected Tuesday night, as voters pick three delegates in each of the states 18 congressional districts. In 2008, for example, John McCain won the majority of the delegate battles throughout Illinois, but Mitt Romney won three Illinois delegates by carrying the congressional district in Moline and Rock Island in the western part of the state. Even after Tuesday, Clark said, there will still be 15 delegates to be selected. A dozen will be picked at the state convention, set for June 8-9 in Tinley Park. Three others are selected by the state chairman.
who has been a delegate to four Republican National Conventions, is on the ballot again, running to support Newt Gingrich. Delegates, she said, are bound to support the candidate they are pledged to on the first ballot. If the decision goes beyond the first round, delegates can vote for anyone. While this scenario is much espoused in the television media, because arguing makes for good theater, its highly unlikely. The last national convention that was not decided on the first ballot was the Democratic one in 1952, when Illinois Adlai Stevenson pulled ahead of Estes Kefauver. Peterson explained that both delegates and alternates go to the convention, and there have been occasions when alternates participate because an elected delegate fails to show. Both alternates and delegates, she said, pay their own way. Every dime, she said.
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Paul alternates: Melanie Alejandre, Michael Neuliep and Michael Watson. Gingrich delegates: Barbara Bobbie Peterson, Judy A. Diekelman and Darrel Smith. Gingrich alternates: Todd E. Arseneau, Michael Bossert and Kimberly A. Curlee. Santorum delegates: David E. Smith, Caesar I. LeFlore and Jay Farquhar. Santorum alternates: George L. Pearson and James Skutt.