IL. Primary: What happens if you vote for one candidate but another candidate's pledged delegates?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

For instance, you vote for Biden himself but you also vote for Warren's 5 delegates instead of Biden's.

I didn't do that today, but I've wondered for some time what that does to the delegate tally.
I asked on an 'Illinois for Warren' board but no one could come up with a confident answer.

Thanks.
Gidney N(o math for me, please, I was a Comm major) Cloyd

[Beakybird]

1. You were supposed to vote for 5? I only voted for 1. Ha!

I was thinking of doing the same as I was originally a Warren supporter.

[frazzled]

3. We were supposed to vote for 8

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. It's 5-- I double checked my sample ballot and my real one wasn't flagged for an undervote.

I almost missed that on the Metropolitan Water Rec District myself (I'd only marked one on the sample ballot)

[frazzled]

6. Maybe it's a different number to vote for depending on size of

your Congressional district. My ballot definitely said vote for no more than 8.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

8. I'd bet that you're right. IL gets a total of 155 pledged delegates and 29 superdelegates.

[Midnight Writer]

9. No more than three on my ballot.

[frazzled]

2. I asked that before

And there were no answers, just misunderstanding the question because most states don’t vote separately for delegates, or saying that wouldn’t happen (I bet it does).

Still want to know.

Just asked spouse, who said he wasn’t sure but thinks the delegate votes would override presidential one. You’re sending them to the convention. He could be right, or not!

[guillaumeb]

4. One delegate told me that the delegates are pledged to vote

for their candidate first. After that, they can switch.

I voted for 6, the maximum.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. They're still pledged even if their candidate dropped out?

And if I'd voted for Biden but picked Bernie's 5 candidates (assuming he rides it to the end) that seems like an even messier problem. If Biden won ILL by a hair's breadth but a few people did what I described and Bernie's delegates got slightly more votes than Bernie himself did...

[guillaumeb]

10. Agreed, there could be a situation.

My guess is that the hope is that a voter will pick a candidate and also that candidate's pledged delegates.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

11. I'm beginning to think we're not supposed to know the answer to this.

And maybe I'm asking too many questions.

[blue-wave]

12. What happens is this

The winner of the statewide race wins a certain percentage of the delegates. I don't know that number for Illinois.

Then, if you vote for another candidates' listed delegates they can, if they win the most votes, become a delegate for said candidate. So if it said to vote for 8 delegates and you voted for only for 5 because those 5 were the only Warren delegates listed, then if those 5 are in the top 8 for total votes, they will go to the convention as Warren delegates. These delegates are voted on in each respective congressional district. Also, if it told you to vote for 8 and their were only 5 for Warren listed, that means that the Warren campaign was only able to recruit 5 people to run for delegate in that particular congressional district. This would mean that 3 delegates from other candidates would be in the top 8 and go to the convention.

It's slightly complicated. I hope I helped.