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The Nominating Process

The Nominating Process. Critical First Step. Nomination Single candidate is chosen from a larger field of candidates The General Election The regularly scheduled election at which voters make a final selection of officeholders. How are nominations made?. Self-announcement

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The Nominating Process

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  1. The NominatingProcess

  2. Critical First Step • Nomination • Single candidate is chosen from a larger field of candidates • The General Election • The regularly scheduled election at which voters make a final selection of officeholders

  3. How are nominations made? • Self-announcement • Caucus: group of like-minded people meet to select candidates they will support in upcoming election • Conventions: major parties pick nominees

  4. How are nominations made? • Petition: candidates nominated by obtaining a certain required number of qualified voters’ signatures in the election district

  5. How are nominations made? • Direct Primary: election within same party • Closed primary: only declared party members can vote • Open primary: any qualified voter can take part • Blanket primary: can vote for either party

  6. Closed vs. Open Primary Closed • Prevents one party from raiding the other’s primary in hope of nominating weaker candidates • Helps make candidates more responsive to the party, its platform & members • Helps make voters more thoughtful, because they must choose between the parties in order to vote in the primaries Open • Voters are not forced to make their party preferences known in public • The tendency to exclude independent voters is eliminated

  7. The Runoff Primary • If no one wins a majority, the 2 top votegetters in the first direct primary face one another and the winner becomes nominee

  8. Nonpartisan Primary • Elections where candidates are not identified by party labels • Usually elected school and municipal offices

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