Resolution of the State Executive Committee of the

Mississippi Republican Party

September 14, 2015
WHEREAS, the Mississippi Republican Party is a political party existing pursuant
to the Constitution and laws of the State of Mississippi and is the official organization of
the Republican electors of Mississippi pursuant to State law; and
WHEREAS, the Mississippi Republican Party is the official organization of the
Republican Party of the United States within the State of Mississippi, pursuant to the Call
of the Republican National Committee; and
WHEREAS, the quadrennial National Convention of the Republican Party of the
United States will be held pursuant to Call and notice in Cleveland, Ohio, the week of July
18, 2016, nomination of the Republican candidates for the offices of President and Vice
President of the United States and for such other purposes as may be proper pursuant to
said Call; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Miss. Code 1972 Ann. 23-15-1081, et seq. (Supp. 1986)
of the laws of the State of Mississippi, provision is made for a preferential primary election
for the office of President of the United States to be held within the State of Mississippi
whereby the Republican electors of Mississippi can vote for the select delegates to be
bound to candidates for the republican nomination for President of the United States; and
WHEREAS, this Resolution is adopted pursuant to the Call and notice of the
Republican National Committee, and pursuant to the Rules of the Republican Party, and
pursuant to the Rules of the Republican National Convention adopted and to be adopted;
and also pursuant to the Call and notice of the Executive Committee of the Mississippi

Republican Party and the Rules of the Mississippi Republican Party State Convention to
be adopted; and
WHEREAS, the quadrennial State Convention of the Mississippi Republican Party
will be held pursuant to Call and notice in Jackson, Mississippi, in May of 2016, for the
selection of delegates to the Republican National Convention and for such other purposes
as may be proper pursuant to said Call to be adopted; and
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the Mississippi Republican Party to guarantee
openness, fairness, and democracy in the nomination of Republican candidates for
President of the United States;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the State Executive Committee of
the Mississippi Republican Party adopts the following Rules for the Republican
Presidential Preferential Primary within Mississippi and the selection of delegates and
alternate delegates to the Republican National Convention, which said Rules shall be a part
of the Call to be adopted for the quadrennial Convention of the Mississippi Republican
Party;
Rule One
Every registered and qualified elector within the State of Mississippi who desires
to support the candidates of the Republican Party shall be eligible to vote in the Republican
Presidential Preferential Primary. No party or election official shall apply, or attempt to
apply, any manner of loyalty oath or attempt to require any affirmation of loyalty to the
Republican Party for any stated period as a precondition to the right to vote in the
Republican Presidential Preferential Primary.

Rule Two
The ballot for the Republican Presidential Preferential Primary in Mississippi shall
contain the names of the candidates for the Republican nomination for President
determined by the Mississippi Secretary of State according to law, and the voters shall be
given the right to express a preference for one candidate only. The names of the candidates
for Vice President shall not appear on the ballot, and the names of the candidates for
delegates and alternate delegates to the Republican National Convention shall not appear
on the ballot.
Rule Three
The vote in the Republican Presidential Preferential Primary shall be canvassed
within each Congressional District. The three delegates and three alternates for each
Congressional District shall be allocated proportionally based on the following: (1) any
presidential candidate who receives the majority (50% + 1) of the Congressional Districts
Presidential Preference Primary vote shall be allocated all three of the Congressional
District delegates and alternates; (2) if no presidential candidate receives the majority (50%
+ 1) of the Congressional Districts Presidential Preference Primary vote, the presidential
candidate receiving the highest number of the Congressional Districts Presidential
Preference Primary votes shall be allocated two delegates and two alternates and the
presidential candidate receiving the second highest number of the Congressional Districts
Presidential Preference Primary votes shall be allocated one delegate and one alternate.
Delegates and alternates representing each Congressional District shall be selected at the
Congressional District caucus at the Republican State Convention pursuant to these rules.

The persons to serve as delegates and alternates to the Republican National Convention are
bound to vote for the candidate to whom they have been allocated through the first ballot.
Rule Four
The vote in the Republican Presidential Preferential Primary shall be canvassed within the
State at-large, and each presidential candidate receiving fifteen (15) percent or more of the
vote statewide shall be allocated a portion of the 24 At Large delegates and 24 At Large
alternates accordingly based on their percentage of the vote total of said candidates who
passed the 15% threshold. If no presidential candidate reaches the 15% threshold of the
statewide vote, the threshold becomes 10% for a candidate to receive delegates and
alternate delegates. All fractional proportions of a delegate/alternate shall be rounded to
the nearest whole number. At Large Delegates and Alternate Delegates to the Republican
National Convention shall be selected at the Republican State Convention pursuant to these
Rules. The persons to serve as delegates and alternates to the Republican National
Convention are bound to vote for the candidate to whom they have been allocated through
the first ballot.
Rule Five
The members of the Republican National Committee shall not be bound to any
Presidential candidate.
Rule Six
At least thirty (30) days in advance of the Republican State Convention, each
candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States who may be
entitled to the election of delegates to the Republican National Convention bound to him
by the presidential preferential primary pursuant to these Rules shall designate in writing,

directed to the State Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, the name and address
of a Floor Representative who shall be entitled to the privileges of the floor of the
Convention and of all meetings of Convention Committees. Each such Floor
Representative may designate and appoint one deputy Floor Representative of each
presidential candidate to attend each District Caucus to be held at the State Convention
who shall be extended the privileges of the floor at the District.
Rule Seven
Each person who shall qualify as a candidate for election by the State Convention
as delegate or alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention shall file with the
Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party at least ten days prior to the day of the State
Convention a written declaration of candidacy for delegate or alternate delegate to the
Republican National Convention, and shall plainly and forthrightly state which candidate
that person will be bound to support on the floor of the Republican National Convention
pursuant to these Rules. No person not so qualifying shall be eligible to seek election as a
delegate or alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention. The State Chairman
shall immediately inform the Floor Representative of each presidential candidate of all
such written declarations of candidacy. A declaration of candidacy for delegate, or for
delegate and alternate delegate in the alternative, shall automatically qualify an
unsuccessful candidate for delegate to seek election as alternate delegate.
Rule Eight
No person shall be qualified to seek election as delegate or alternate delegate to the
Republican National Convention unless and until that person shall have made an affidavit
upon oath under penalty of perjury, in a form to be provided by the State Chairman of the

Mississippi Republican Party in advance of the State Convention, that such person (a) has
designated the candidate to whom such person will be bound pursuant to the Rules; (b)
will, if elected, abide by these Rules in all things; (c) will, if elected, be bound to vote at
the Republican National Convention for the candidate for the Republican Nomination as
President of the United States designated by such person on all ballots until released by
said candidate publicly or in writing; and (d) will execute and deliver such Waiver of
Process, Entry of Appearance, Consent and Undertaking as may be necessary, in the
opinion of the General Counsel of the Mississippi Republican Party, to make such oath and
commitment fully binding and enforceable in a court of competent jurisdiction.
Rule Nine
Each delegate (and alternate delegate, if voting as a delegate) to the Republican
National Convention allocated to the candidates pursuant to the Republican Presidential
Preferential Primary and elected by the District Caucuses and the whole body of the
Republican State Convention pursuant to the Rules shall be bound and constrained to the
vote for the candidate designated by him or her prior to seeking election as delegate or
alternate delegate pursuant to these Rules until released publicly or in writing by the
presidential candidate to who he or she is bound. Any failure, attempt or threat to violate
these Rules and fail to vote as designated, bound and constrained shall amount to
irreparable harm so that any court of competent jurisdiction within Mississippi or at the
venue of the Republican National Convention may, with or without notice, issue such
temporary restraining orders or injunctive decrees, both mandatory and prohibitory, as may
be necessary to enforce the Rules.

Rule Ten
Each person seeking election as a delegate or alternate delegate to the Republican
National Convention may be required to execute and deliver, in a form required by the
General Counsel of the Mississippi Republican Party, a Waiver of Process, Entry of
Appearance and Consent to Personal Jurisdiction in the Chancery Court of the First Judicial
District in Hinds County, Mississippi, for the purposes of legal proceedings which may be
necessary for enforcement of these Rules and the solemn commitment to be bound and
constrained to vote as designated for the candidate to whom delegates and alternate
delegates have been allocated by the Republican Presidential Preferential Primary pursuant
to the Rules.
Rule Eleven
The Floor Representative or Deputy Floor Representative of each candidate for
President may, upon the floor of the State Convention or at the District Caucus, speak for
not more than two minutes in opposition to or in support of candidates for delegate or
alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention who have designated the
presidential candidate represented by that Floor Representative as the candidate to whom
they are bound. However, such remarks by the Floor Representative shall be limited to the
bona fides of the candidate for National Convention delegate or alternate delegate as a
genuine supporter of the presidential candidate designated. The Floor Representative shall
not advocate the election of one candidate for National Convention delegate or alternate
delegate over another in his remarks. However, such advocacy may be done in nominating
and seconding speeches if allowed by Convention Rules, but the Floor Representative shall
not make or second such nominations.

Rule Twelve
The District Caucuses or the whole body of the Convention, as the case may be,
shall place on the agenda and proceed to the business of the nomination and election of
delegates to the National Convention before taking up the nomination and election of
alternate delegates. Unsuccessful candidates for delegate shall be eligible to seek election
as an alternate delegate. Alternate delegates shall replace delegates who are deceased,
absent or disabled in alphabetical order drawn from the list of alternates committed to the
same presidential candidate as the deceased, absent, or disabled delegate.
Rule Thirteen
These Rules shall not apply to questions before the Republican National
Convention other than the balloting for the nomination of President of the United States.
Rule Fourteen
All rules and regulations of the Mississippi Republican Party in conflict with the
provisions of this resolution are hereby repealed. This resolution and its provisions shall
take effect and be in force from and after September 14, 2015.