The battlefield was Democratic primaries to pick delegates for seven district nominating conventions.

But the ballots will be coded so that only Republican votes count toward selecting Republican delegates and only Democratic votes pick Democratic delegates.

(Six states in other regions will also pick delegates.)

He unfolded a few extra, he said, because this was the meeting to pick delegates to the state nominating convention in July.

In January, caucuses were held in local districts to pick delegates.

State-level bosses, like Roscoe Conkling, used the state conventions to pick delegates that were politically allied to a particular candidate.

When the British Government proposed elections in Northern Ireland to choose representatives who would pick delegates and start the peace talks, Sinn Fein objected to the idea.

South Dakota will pick delegates through a primary while Minnesota's will be chosen in caucuses.

Michigan will be the first state to pick delegates for the Republican National Convention.

County conventions convened all through March and April, each picking delegates to the state conventions who was not bound to any particular candidate either.