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Instead of holding either a caucus or a primary, Nevada is holding both, just two days apart in early February. The primary, on Feb. 6, is being conducted by the state, using all the state voting precincts with ballots mailed to every registered Republican. The caucus, on Feb. 8, requires participants to find the site closest to their home designated by the pro-Trump state party during two specific hours that night to cast a paper ballot that will be counted by hand, by the pro-Trump state party.

“This is a way for them to make sure not only that Donald Trump wins, but to ensure that he wins the majority of the delegates,” Tarkanian said.

And because primaries by their very design almost always have higher participation rates than caucuses, the winner of the primary could easily collect far more ballots than the winner of the caucus — even though the participants of the primary will not win any of the delegates Nevada will send to the summer nominating convention.