Paul Manafort, who has been recently appointed to a senior position in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, accused Ted Cruz of using underhanded tactics to secure more delegates for the Republican National Convention.
If neither of the candidates in the GOP primary receives the majority amount of 1,237 delegates, a series of run-off voting is held in a contested convention—also considered a “brokered convention.”
The process starts with the first ballot, where delegates are bound to cast votes for the candidate chosen by voters, and handed down by the state.
About 95 percent of the delegates show up to the convention bound, and the other 5 percent show up “unbound.” Unbound delegates are like free agents and can vote however they feel.
If a nominee still does not have the majority of the delegates, then it’s considered a contested convention and it goes to a second round of ballots.
In the second round of voting, many delegates become “unbound” and are free to vote for whomever they prefer, instead of whom the majority of the voters in their district voted for.
