U.S. Presidential Primary Elections Explained

[@safari79]

This is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks! 🇺🇸

[@NsrSRK]

In a primary election, voter chooses the candidate of a party for the general election. In a closed primary, voter can only vote for a candidate of the party that they themself are registered with. In a open primary, voter can vote for a candidate from any party. In a caucus, local party members meet to vote for a candidate from their party. please reply, if any error found.

[@nfpnone8248]

Everything you said in your comment is wrong! The democratic and republican parties together are 13% and 11% of the people collectively, not the voters, and the electors are an exact representation of ALL THE PEOPLE, and are required to be proportional to ALL THE PEOPLE, so when the electors make their choices of candidates they identified and vetted, the list of candidates that they transmit to Congress must have all the candidates identified and vetted by the electors, not just those identified by 24% of ALL THE PEOPLE, and that other 76% of the electors, must have other candidates that are not affiliated with those 24% that are affiliated with our political parties, and our 76% cannot be won by winning a competitive partisan election of only candidates that have won a parties nomination. I HAVE NO OBJECTION TO THE ELECTORS WHO REPRESENT THAT 24% OF THE PEOPLE PUTTING THE CANDIDATES THE PEOPLE THEY REPRESENT WANT ON THEIR TWO BALLOTS, BUT I DRAW THE LINE WITH THEM FORCING THE ELECTORS THAT REPRESENT THE REST OF US TO PUT THE WINNING CANDIDATES FROM THE PARTIES ON ONE OF THEIR TWO BALLOTS. For me that’s a bridge too far!

[@nfpnone8248]

Nothing happens in a Presidential primary election, because the votes of the electors of each State to identify and vet candidates to make a list of the most qualified and most suitable candidates, is the primary, the election doesn’t take place until all the certified lists of the electors choices are opened in congress and the top candidates are identified when all the lists are combined, which forms the ballot of candidates the States must consider to determine their choice by vote, 1 vote per State, and a majority of All the States is necessary to the choice.