During November 2007, the RNC made a determination that South Carolina's Saturday 19 January 2008 primary violates Republican Party Rule Number 16. The rule states that the process of selecting National Convention Delegates must not begin before Tuesday 5 February 2008. South Carolina is sanctioned 50% of their delegation hence, the number of delegates is decreased from 47 to 24. The eliminated positions include the 3 automatic delegates (State Chair, National Committeewoman and National Committeeman).

TheGreenPapers.com will be tracking delegate counts as both "Soft" (here assuming that relevant delegations will remain sanctioned into the National Convention [that is: with half the originally allocated delegates to be seated at the Republican National Convention]) and as "Alternative" (here assuming that the full delegation of an affected jurisdiction- as originally allocated before being sanctioned- is eventually to be seated [that is, at some point before the Convention, sanctions will be lifted]) from now until the Party's National Convention convenes or until no delegation is any longer sanctioned, if this should occur prior to the Convention.

Saturday 19 January 2008: All 24 (pre-penalty 44 of 47) of South Carolina's delegates to the Republican National Convention are allocated to presidential contenders in today's South Carolina Presidential Primary.

• 12 (we are guessing) (pre-penalty 18) district delegates are to be allocated to presidential contenders based on the primary results in each of the state's 6 congressional districts: each congressional district is assigned 2 (we are guessing) (pre-penalty 3) National Convention delegates and the presidential contender receiving the greatest number of votes in that district will receive 2 (we are guessing) (pre-penalty all 3) of that district's National Convention delegates. [Rule 11(b)(4)]
• 12 (we are guessing) (pre-penalty 26) at-large delegates (10 base at-large delegates plus 16 bonus delegates) are to be allocated to the presidential contender receiving the greatest number of votes in the primary statewide. [Rule 11(b)(6)]

In addition, 0 (pre-penalty 3) party leaders, the National Committeeman, the National Committeewoman, and the chairman of the South Carolina's Republican Party, will attend the convention as pledged delegates by virtue of their position.

National Convention delegates are bound for the first ballot at the Convention. If the candidate receives 30% or more of the vote on the first ballot, the delegates are then bound for the second ballot. Otherwise, the delegates are released.