Questions tagged [nonpartisan-blanket-primary]

For use on questions about nonpartisan blanket primaries, or "jungle primaries", in which two candidates are chosen, regardless of party, to be on the ballot in a race. Washington State and California both use this system. Use in conjunction with the [united-states] and [primaries] tags.

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What are the arguments for California’s nonpartisan blanket (jungle) primaries?

California has a system where two candidates, chosen in a nonpartisan primary, are on the ballot in each congressional or statewide race. It's sometimes called a jungle primary. This makes it so that ...
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