Santorum could be ineligible for 18 Ohio delegates

[Torie]

First it was 3 CD's in Ohio that Santorum failed to file a list of delegates, and now it is apparently 9 CD's (out of a total of 16 CD's), which if true means Rick is potentially out of the hunt for 18 delegates in Ohio.

Of further interest, per the article, it is unclear what will happen if Rick wins a CD where he has filed no slate of delegates. The 2 delegates assigned to that CD are apparently awarded to no one in that case, yet Ohio is still entitled to send the same number of delegates to the convention, so they will need to be chosen somehow, by some unspecified mechanism. So there will be a contretemps about that. One Rick will certainly win OH-06 where he has no delegates filed, so one can expect this issue to actual become in play.

The article does not list the 9 CD's Rick failed to file a slate in, so we don't know the identity of the additional 6 CD's where Rick dropped the ball.

Addendum: Green Papers says 3 delegates are awarded per Ohio CD rather than 2, by the way. So it may be 27 delegates in play here, rather than 18.

[Torie]

Here is a much better explanation. In six CD's, Rick filed only a partial slate, so that explains the number discrepancy.
 

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Rick failed to file any delegates per previous reports in OH-06, 09, and 13.  OH-06 should be Rick's strongest CD, and OH-04 may be his second strongest CD. He should do better in OH-10 than in the state as a whole.

[Torie]

So what happens if Santorum wins a district where he doesn't have a slate of delegates filed? Do they send uncommitted delegates to the convention? Does the OH-GOP pack the uncommitted slates with Romney supporters? Do they just send no delegates? Does whoever comes in 2nd get the delegates?

Click the link in my post above, and it explains the process. The short answer is that nobody knows. There will be a committee vote on the matter, presumably wired by Mittens, but who knows?

[Torie]

I believe the campaign, through the state committee, could appoint under Article X, Section 5.  http://www.scribd.com/doc/30460103/Ohio-Republican-Party-State-Central-Committee-Bylaws

That deals with replacing an existing delegate who falls by the wayside.