DUTIES:Convention delegates elected in the Primary are part of the state delegations that officially select their party’s presidential candidate at the party’s national conventions. Presidential nominees are not elected directly by the voters in the Primary. Rather, voters in each state choose delegates to represent them at the national conventions.HOW ELECTED: Republican party ballots list the candidates for delegates to the Republican National Convention and the name of the presidential candidate each one supports. Republican voters in each of Maryland’s eight (8) Congressional Districts will elect three (3) delegates and three (3) alternates. The presidential contender receiving the greatest number of votes in each district will receive the votes of all three (3) of that district’s delegates. Each voter may vote for up to three (3) candidates for delegate and three (3) candidates for alternate from his/her Congressional District.