These new rule changes, which were released in a vague email to RNC members are possible due to the illegitimate passing of Rule 12 at the 2012 Republican National Convention and will ensure that voting Republicans will have no choice outside of the establishment backed Presidential candidate in 2016. The delegates chosen for the National Convention will have been hand picked by the party elites presumptive nominee and will again control the only avenue of bottom-up change in the party. Furthermore, the opportunity for any candidate to gain the necessary support to have their name submitted as a prospective party nominee will be virtually impossible to reach.