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| the naming of those who will seek office |
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| regularly scheduled elections at which voters make the final selection of officeholders |
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| a group like-minded people who meet to select the candidates they will support in an upcoming election. |
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| an intra-party election. Held within a party to pick that party's candidates for the general election. |
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| a party's nominating election in which only delcared party members can vote. |
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| a party's nominating election in which ANY qualified voter can cast a ballot. |
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| sometimes called the "wide-open primary." |
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| held if no one wins a majority in a race, and the two top votegetters in the first party primary face one another for the party's nomination and the winner of that vote becomes the nominee. |
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| elections in which candidates are not identified by party labels. |
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