| For most of its history, California used closed primary elections to select the nominees of each party for state offices and Congress. |
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| Regular party workers favor the closed primary because it promotes party loyalty. |
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| Consider first the situation facing a registered voter in a statewide primary election conducted under closed primary rules. |
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| A closed primary requires that those who wish to vote in the Republican primary declare themselves as a Republican when they register to vote. |
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| Independents cannot vote in a closed primary state, but fewer citizens register as independents in closed primary states. |
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| He again stressed the need for direct democracy, corporate regulation, labor protection, prison reform, a closed primary system, and a measure requiring the disclosure of newspaper ownership. |
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| When coupled with our decision in Tashjian that a party may require a State to open up a closed primary, this intrusion has even broader implications. |
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| Slightly more than half of the states, many in the Northeast and Midwest, where parties traditionally have been strongest, hold some form of a closed primary. |
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| The Court affirmed a lower court ruling that closed primary laws requiring party membership to vote in a primary did not violate the rights of other voters. |
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| An advantage of the closed primary is the fact that candidates who win the party nomination more closely reflect the beliefs and ideas of the party faithful. |
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| The two-primary effect is particularly acute in closed primary states because there are moderate and independent voters who are not part of the primary election process. |
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| But because of Florida's closed primary system, Mr. McCain would still have lost, Mr. Scher said. |
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| Unlike Michigan, this is a closed primary, meaning that only registered Republicans are permitted to vote. |
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| Until then, the state's voters could participate only in their own party's primary, a system known as a closed primary. |
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| Gov. Tony Knowles allowed a bill that would create closed primary elections to become law without his signature. |
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| A petition calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to reform the state's closed primary system gained more than 1,600 signatures in the hours after polls closed. |
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