Private parties with public purposes: Political parties, associational freedoms, and partisan competition

Columbia Law Review

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 274-

  Issacharoff, Samuel ^a  

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EID: 0041731943     PISSN: 00101958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1123800     Document Type: Article

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1. 120 S. Ct. 2402 (2000). A blanket primary allows a voter to participate in the nomination of any party of his or her choice, regardless of prior institutional affiliation with that party. Blanket primaries differ from both open and closed primaries in that registered voters may participate in the primary of more than one party on the same ballot. In a closed primary, a voter may participate only in the primary of the party in which he or she is registered. In an open primary, a registered voter may request the ballot of any party, whether registered in that party or not, but may vote only for the primary candidates of that party. A blanket primary permits voters to vote for any candidate in any party without being registered in that party. The ballot includes all candidates running in the primary of all parties, thereby allowing the voter to choose which party's primary to vote in on an office-by-office basis (e.g., voting among the Republicans for governor, among the Democrats for senator, etc.).