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2008 Maine Republican Party caucus information
Basic Info
The Maine Republican Party is encouraging all towns to hold their Caucuses on February 1, 2, and 3 of 2008. Towns are not obligated to meet at this time, but most will.
The time and place of your local Caucus must be advertised in your local newspaper no more than 7 days before the event.
Only residents that are registered to vote, in that town, as a Republican, will be allowed to participate in the caucus.
The town clerk WILL send a representative to the caucus in order to verify voter registration.
Democrats, Independents, Greens, Libertarians, Constitution Party members, et al can not participate in the GOP caucus.
What will happen at the local Caucus meetings:
Presidential preference vote: caucus attendees who are verified by the municipal clerk as registered Republicans of that municipality will be asked to complete a secret ballot expressing their Presidential preference. The ballots will be tallied by the Caucus Chairman (or Chairman's designee) and the results will be reported to the Republican State Committee and/or Republican County Chairman. The Caucus results will be provided to the media.
Selection of State convention delegates: Caucus attendees may run for Delegate positions to the Republican State Convention to be held on May 3, 2008 in Augusta, Maine.
Any Delegates and Alternates elected to represent their town at the State Convention will not be bound to support any Presidential candidate.
A maximum of 3867 State convention delegates will be chosen at the local caucus meetings.
You can find out the number allotted for your town here.
The caucus meeting will likely last several hours, as it will also consist of some "nuts and bolts" party business, as well as potentially some speeches by delegate candidates and lobbying time.
What will happen the State GOP convention:
18 delegates (and alternates) to the 2008 Republican National Convention will be elected at the Maine Republican State Convention on Saturday, May 3, 2008 in accordance with state party rules.
(3 of Maine's 21 National delegates have already been selected)
The delegates chosen to represent Maine at the National Convention will NOT be under any obligation to support any particular candidate.
Only those who have been selected as a delegate from their respective town will have the right to participate in the selection process of these 18 National Delegates.
This means we must prepare to travel to Minneapolis as national delegates in order to be sure that Ron Paul receives appropriate consideration at the national convention.
