Alaska Republican Party Convention process is described in these four key steps:
1. State Convention Call:
The Alaska Republican Party State Convention Call governs the Alaska Republican Party process that selects the Alaskan National Convention Delegates to the Republican National Convention in Tampa, FL August 27-30.
2. Party Preference Poll Introduction:
The Alaska Republican Party Presidential Preference Poll (PPP) will be conducted from 4 – 8 pm March 6 at locations throughout Alaska. These locations are listed below. Find your new district on the June 13, 2011 proclamation map. Additional locations will be added as locations are confirmed.
Alaska’s Republican Presidential Preference Poll (PPP) has four candidates who were certified in the following order:
These candidates and unpledged will appear on the March 6 Alaska Republican Party Presidential Preference Poll Ballot.
All registered Alaska Republicans are invited to cast their vote for their preferred candidate. The Presidential Preference Poll vote binds the 24 Alaskan National Convention Delegates to the Republican National Convention in Tampa, FL from August 27-30.
The primary goal of the PPP is to develop and run an open, reasonably accessible, fair, valid, logistically pragmatic and secure process which will direct the Alaska Republican Party (ARP) delegates to the Republican National Convention to vote for their Republican candidate(s) of choice for the Presidency of the United States.
Fourteen thousand Alaska Republicans voted in the 2008 Presidential Preference Poll. Bring your Republican friends and family members to the March 6 poll to set a new record.
3. District Convention Activities:
All Alaska Legislative Districts (using the June 13, 2011 official Proclamation Map) shall conduct District Conventions between March 6 and March 26, 2012. These District Conventions are the first step in determining the platform, rules and resolutions for the 2012 General Election Campaign. The District Conventions elect State Convention Delegates and District Officers. Locate your district on the proclamation map. Find your authorized District Delegate count on the Alaska Republican Party State Convention Call. Find your District Convention on the ARP events calendar.
Article III of the ARP Rules provide your District Convention process.
4. State Convention Activities:
Elected State Convention Delegates will gather at the Anchorage
Hilton Hotel from April 26-28 for the 2012 Republican State
Convention. The State Convention will adopt the 2012 Alaska
Republican
Platform & Resolutions and the ARP Rules. The State Officers
&
National Convention Delegates bound by the March 6 PPP vote will be
elected. Article V of the ARP Rules provide the process for
the State Convention.
EXCERPT from Article V
Section 8: Qualifications for State Convention Delegates and Alternate Delegates
(a) Each State Convention delegate and alternate delegate shall have been selected in accordance with RPA rules.
(b) Each delegate and alternate delegate shall pay registration fees and sign the State Convention Registry and provide address, email address and fax/telephone as available.
(c) There shall be no automatic delegates in the delegate selection process other than Republican US and Alaska State Legislators shall be allowed State Convention delegate status during Off-Presidential Election years.
(d) If a delegate or alternate delegate to a State Convention moves to another district after his election, he shall retain his seat from the district in which he was elected. If a district boundary is moved after his election, he shall retain his seat.
Section 9: Certification of State Convention Delegates and Alternate Delegates
The District Chairman shall file his Elected State Delegate List and his Elected State Alternate Delegate List with the ARP State Secretary within ten (10) calendar days of his District Convention adjournment. These lists containing the individual’s address, email address and fax/phone numbers make up the Temporary Roll of the State Convention. The Temporary Roll will be made available to the public at reasonable cost ten (10) calendar days before the State Convention.
Section 10: Challenges to State Convention Delegates and Alternate Delegates
Any properly registered Republican voter may challenge the qualifications of any delegate or alternate delegate to the State Convention by appealing to the State Credentials Committee. All challenges must in writing, must state the grounds for the challenge, and must be filed with the State Secretary seven (7) or more calendar days before the date of the beginning of the State Convention. An unfavorable decision by the State Credentials Committee may be appealed to that State Convention, whose decision shall be final.
Section 11: Rights of State Convention Delegates and Alternate Delegates
(a) Any seated delegate to the State Convention has the right to:
(1) serve as a voting member of a convention committee.
(2) speak and present motions to the State Convention, when and if recognized by the Chairman.
(3) vote, if present at the time the vote is taken, on any issue which may come before the State Convention.
(b) Any State Convention alternate delegate has the right to serve as a non-voting convention committee member.
Section 12: Seating of Delegates to the State Convention
(a) Registration for the State Convention shall close one hour after State Convention convenes on the first day, unless otherwise stated in the Call to State Convention. The Credentials Committee shall issue the temporary convention roll as soon as possible after the close of delegate registration.
(b) Seating of delegates and alternate delegates to a state convention shall be in accordance with the following procedures:
(1) Registered delegates present shall be seated first.
(2) Alternate delegates shall be assigned to vacancies on the delegate list. These assignments shall be first selected in sequence from the top of the alternate delegate list of their respective districts, it being the intent that no district delegation shall remain short of seated delegates so long as registered alternate delegates from the district are physically present.
(3) If an elected delegate has not registered by the close of state convention registration, an alternate delegate will be assigned to that delegate seat.
Section 13: Order of Business for the State Convention
The state convention shall proceed by the order of business printed in the state convention agenda as submitted by the State Chairman and approved by the SCC.
Section 14: Election and Appointment of Republican Party Officers
(a) The state convention shall elect the following RPA officers for two (2) year terms:
(1) State Chairman-Elect
(2) State Vice-Chairman-Elect
(3) State Secretary
(4) Assistant State Secretary
(b) The State Treasurer, State Legal Counsel, State Parliamentarian, State, seven (7) Regional Finance Chairmen and Assistant State Treasurer shall be appointed by the State Chairman and approved by an SCC majority at the SCC meeting immediately after the State Convention. The State Treasurer and Assistant State Treasurer should be technically well experienced in accounting.
(c) During presidential election years, the state convention shall
elect one National Committeeman and one National Committeewoman who
shall represent the ARP as members of the RNC for a four (4) year term.
Section 15: Republican National Convention Delegate and Alternate Delegate Election
(a) The Alaska State Convention is entitled to send to the Republican National Convention the number of delegates and alternate delegates specified by NRC Rules.
(b) All delegates and alternates shall be elected thirty-five (35) or more calendar days before the beginning date of the meeting of the Republican National Convention.
(c) The State Convention shall endeavor to have equal representation of men and women in its delegation to the Republican National Convention.
(d) Only seated Regular State Convention delegates have the right to be nominated for and be, if elected, a delegate or alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention. Republican Members of Congressional Delegation, Governor, and Lieutenant Governor shall be eligible to be elected delegates to the Republican National Convention.
(e) A State Convention delegate who cannot attend the State Convention due to an emergency, such as a family death or other significant family event, who provided a written request to the Nomination Committee during the State Convention, can be a delegate to the national convention.
(f) If a delegate or alternate delegate to a Regular State Convention moves to another district within the state after his election as a delegate or alternate delegate, he shall retain his seat from the district in which he was elected. If a district boundary is moved after his election as a delegate or alternate delegate, he shall retain his seat from the district in which he was elected.
(g) National Convention Delegation:
(1) Each person who desires to be elected a Republican National Convention delegate or alternate must submit a completed written Nomination Request on which they shall identify which Qualified Presidential Candidate they shall support for nomination at the following National Convention should they be elected, and a check or credit card authorization in an amount set by the State Central Committee for convention hotel deposit to the State Convention Nominations Committee before its meeting starts.
(2) Delegates to the National Convention shall be elected from the Delegates to the State Convention. Delegates to the National Convention shall be pledged to support a Qualified Presidential Candidate or be earned non-pledged delegates. Delegates must support their indicated Qualified Presidential Candidate so long as their preferred Candidate maintains an active campaign. After the second round of balloting, if the Qualified Presidential Candidate to which the Delegate is pledged is the candidate receiving the fewest number of votes in the previous round of balloting, the Delegate is no longer required to support that candidate.
(3) When the Regular State Convention has elected a complete slate of delegates to the Republican National Convention, then a list of alternate delegates to the Republican National Convention shall be elected from those who are qualified according to the requirements of this section. The completed list shall be set in order of preference, and approved by a majority of the seated delegates at the Regular State Convention.
(4) Delegates to the National Convention shall be apportioned among
the Qualified Presidential
Candidates by first determining the percentage of the support each
Qualified Presidential Candidate received at each District Convention
pursuant to Article III, Section 11 of these rules, then multiplying
that number by the delegates entitled to attend the State Convention
from that district. Alternate Delegates to the National Convention
shall be similarly apportioned. District Delegates expressing “no
preference” shall be counted as votes for non-pledged delegates to the
National Convention.
(5) Each Alternate Delegate shall be ranked among the Qualified Presidential Candidates and may only become a Delegate if a similarly pledged Delegate is unable to attend the Convention. In the event that a Delegate position becomes vacant and there is no available Alternate Delegate pledged to the corresponding Qualified Presidential Candidate, then the highest ranked non-pledged Delegate shall be seated as a Delegate. In the event that there are no non-pledged Alternate Delegates available then the highest ranked Alternate Delegate of the Qualified Presidential Candidate with the greatest number of Delegates shall be seated as a non-pledged Delegate.
(6) A “Qualified Presidential Candidate” is any Republican Candidate for President who thirty days prior to the start of the first District Convention, has filed a Request of Nomination with the Chairman of the Alaska Republican Party, paid a $1000.00 registration fee to the Alaska Republican Party and submitted the signatures of 50 Republicans registered to vote in the State of Alaska, of which no more than ten (10) shall be registered to vote in any one district.
(7) If a Qualified Presidential Candidate drops out prior to the Republican State Convention, the percentage of national delegates pledged to that candidate shall be apportioned to the non-pledged group.
(8) If a pledged delegate or alternate delegate is pledged to a Qualified Presidential Candidate who is no longer a candidate for the Republican Nomination for President as of the date of the National Convention, that delegate or alternate delegate shall be deemed non-pledged.
(9) There shall be no fractional delegates. A fractional share of a delegate for a Qualified Presidential Candidate shall be rounded up to the next full delegate for the candidate receiving the most delegates and reduce delegate allocation of the Qualified Presidential Candidate receiving the fewest delegates. The process shall apply to the Qualified Presidential Candidates in descending order by total delegates until all delegates are fully assigned.
(H) No member of the State Convention nominating committee may be nominated as national convention delegate, alternate, or elector.