A key Republican committee says it is troubled by the "ineptness" of the Nevada GOP and called the state party's attempt to elect delegates to next week's national convention "flawed, inadequate and unacceptable." The RNC Committee on Contests was asked to review the delegates by a group of Ron Paul supporters who argued they were shut out of the delegate selection process. The Paul backers elected a separate delegation to the convention in St. Paul, Minn., which also was rejected by the RNC panel.

In a rejection of appeals from both groups issued Wednesday, the Committee on Contests wrote it was "deeply troubled by the ineptness of the state party" and "rejects any process to select delegates and alternate delegates that restricts party grass-roots activists from participating in that process, as appears to be the case here."