A former Rand Paul Randal (Rand) Howard PaulSecond GOP senator to quarantine after exposure to coronavirus GOP senator to quarantine after coronavirus exposure The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by National Industries for the Blind - Trump seeks to flip 'Rage' narrative; Dems block COVID-19 bill MORE staffer who wrote a book on a contested Republican convention successfully won his bid to become an unbound convention delegate in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Republican strategist John Yob and his wife both won Thursday votes to be a part of the Virgin Islands’s nine-person delegation to the Republican convention, The Associated Press reports.

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The Republican delegate process doesn’t include superdelegates, party leaders who are given the freedom to choose the candidate of their choice. The party’s rules stipulate that any state or territory that holds a presidential preference vote must bind delegates according to those results.

But the Virgin Islands is among the group of three territories and three states that did not hold preference votes to side-step that stipulation. Delegate experts believe that all delegates from those territories, as well as North Dakota, will be allowed into the convention unbound.

Virgin Islanders do not have the right to vote in the general election, but can vote during the primary.

Yob had previously lived in Michigan and worked for Paul’s presidential campaign before the Kentucky senator dropped out. That prompted a fierce battle over whether he had lived on the island long enough to be eligible for the slot. The AP reports that a judge will hear a challenge to his residency in this month.

Yob is the author of “Chaos: The Outsider's Guide to a Contested Republican National Convention,” a fact that has prompted questions about whether he moved to the island in order to take advantage of its delegate rules.