Congressional Digest

Supreme Court Debates April 2008 No. 4 Vol. 11
Open Primaries

Open Primaries

A Challenge to the Power of Political Parties

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(Excerpted from Supreme Court Debates, April 2008)
For 68 years, the State of Washington had a “blanket primary” system, where voters could cast ballots for whichever party’s candidates they preferred. They could select the Democratic nominee for governor, then turn around and pick the Republican nominee for Senate, regardless of their own party affiliation.
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a similar primary system in California Democratic Party v. Jones (2000), however, holding that voters who are not affiliated with a political party cannot help to choose the party’s nominees in the pr…

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