§ 168.619National convention delegates; basis of election; affidavit; certification; duration

of commitment; vacancy; legislator prohibited from selecting delegates; participation of
 legislator in convention business; opportunity of registered elector or public official to be
 elected as delegate not restricted.
 Sec. 619.
    (1) National convention delegates elected under this act shall be elected on a basis that
 insures that the proportion of the total national convention delegation that is uncommitted or is
 committed to each presidential candidate equals, as near as is practicable, the proportion of the
 popular vote that was cast as uncommitted or for each respective presidential candidate of the
 particular political party's total popular vote at the presidential primary election. The
 determination of these proportions shall only include the votes cast as uncommitted, or for a
 particular presidential candidate, if the total vote cast as uncommitted, or for that particular
 presidential candidate, equals at least the percentage determined by state political party rule of


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 the total vote cast for all presidential candidates or as uncommitted for that political party at
 that presidential primary election.
    (2) Before an individual may be elected as a delegate to the national convention of a
 political party, that individual shall file an affidavit as required under section 562b. If the
 individual names a presidential candidate in the affidavit under section 562b(1)(a), that
 individual shall also be certified by the presidential candidate or the presidential candidate's
 designee as a delegate committed to that presidential 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 562b 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.
    (3) If a vacancy occurs in the elected delegation, it shall be filled by an alternate selected by
 the caucus for the candidate to whom the original delegate was committed, and the alternate
 shall be required to meet the same qualifications of the delegate being replaced.
    (4) A person who is a delegate at large to a state convention of his or her political party only
 by virtue of being a member of the state legislature as provided in section 595a shall not
 participate in the selecting of delegates to his or her political party's national convention. This
 subsection does not prohibit that person from participating in other convention business.
 Neither this provision nor any other provision of law shall be understood to restrict the
 opportunity of any registered elector in this state, including all public officials, to be elected as
 a delegate to any county, district, state, or national convention of the elector's political party.