Voting, voting, and more voting. Most of the state laws and party rules that dictate how a delegate must vote at the national convention apply to the first ballot only. That's all you need, so long as one candidate manages to garner at least 50 percent of the vote. However, if no one wins a majority, the convention chair will call for a second ballot in which most delegates are free to vote for whomever they like. (A few states require their delegates to keep voting for the winner of that state's primary through three or four ballots.) If the second ballot still doesn?t produce a winner, they?ll keep voting until someone has a majority. Since there hasn?t been a multi-ballot convention since 1952, there?s no recent precedent to govern the procedure. The votes could be held in rapid succession, or RNC leaders might call for a recess to allow for campaigning, horse-trading, and arm-twisting. It?s even possible that a currently undeclared candidate could emerge as the winner in a multi-ballot convention.
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