Colorado GOP Canceled Primary, Depriving Vote To Million Voters

The Republican Party's presidential nomination process is proving to be its Achilles' heel. There have been countless examples this year of Sen. Ted Cruz being awarded more delegates in states that Donald Trump actually won. This past weekend, more than one million registered Republicans in Colorado were deprived of the right to cast a vote in that state's primary. Last year, Republican leaders dumped popular voting in favor of party conclaves scattered around the state's seven congressional districts where only GOP leaders had the opportunity to pick delegates to this year's Republican National Convention. The backroom process allowed Sen. Ted Cruz to capture all 34 convention delegates. In Indiana, Republican convention delegates are being chosen by party leaders. How Indiana Republican primary voters cast their votes in Indiana's primary election next month will not matter. GOP leaders are making no bones about their intent to select delegates based on their agreement never to support Trump for president. So what's the point of having a presidential primary election if our votes won't count? Taxpayers pay to put on the election, but our votes don't count.

UPDATE: Ordinarily, newspaper editors are concerned when voters are denied the opportunity to cast a meaningful vote in American elections but not at the Gannett-owned Indianapolis Star. Star opinion editor tweets gleefully about GOP leaders' efforts in Indiana to deprive Trump of any delegates to the GOP convention regardless of how Hoosier Republicans vote next month.