[EL] Open primaries

Wed Aug 6 11:12:40 PDT 2014

Some of these state designations can change based on changes in party
rules, but here is an easy-to-use  map we created as for February 2012:

http://www.fairvote.org/research-and-analysis/presidential-elections/congressional-and-presidential-primaries-open-closed-semi-closed-and-top-two/

We have updated the report recently, but not put it into the map yet.

Rob

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Rob Richie
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rr at fairvote.org  (301) 270-4616  http://www.fairvote.org

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Maceda, Cliff <cmaceda_CONTRACTOR at ap.org>
wrote:

>  There are a few different kinds:
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> Blanket top-two:  3 states
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> Completely open:  20
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> Up to parties:  5
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> And there are a few states that allow voters to change their party
> affiliation when they vote, so sort of open.
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> *From:* law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:
> law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] *On Behalf Of *Jboppjr
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 06, 2014 11:54 AM
> *To:* Rick Hasen; law-election at UCI.edu
> *Subject:* [EL] Open primaries
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> Could someone help me with some information?  How many states have open
> primaries?  Has this this been studied? Jim Bopp
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> From: Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu>
> Date: 08/06/2014 10:22 AM (GMT-06:00)
> To: law-election at UCI.edu
> Subject: [EL] ELB News and Commentary 8/6/14
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>  “A comprehensive investigation of voter impersonation finds 31 credible
> incidents out of one billion ballots cast”
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64062>
>
> Posted on August 6, 2014 8:15 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64062> by Rick
> Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Justin Levitt
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/08/06/a-comprehensive-investigation-of-voter-impersonation-finds-31-credible-incidents-out-of-one-billion-ballots-cast/>
> for WonkBlog:
>
> I’ve been tracking allegations of fraud
> <https://web.archive.org/web/20070622014244/http:/truthaboutfraud.org/index.html> for
> years now
> <http://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/analysis/The%20Truth%20About%20Voter%20Fraud.pdf>,
> including the fraud ID laws are designed to stop. In 2008, when the Supreme
> Court weighed in on voter ID, I looked at every single allegation
> <http://www.brennancenter.org/page/-/Democracy/Analysis%20of%20Crawford%20Allegations.pdf>
> put before the Court. And since then, I’ve been following reports wherever
> they crop up.
>
> To be clear, I’m not just talking about prosecutions. I track any
> specific, credible allegation that someone may have pretended to be someone
> else at the polls, in any way that an ID law could fix.
>
> So far, I’ve found about 31 different incidents (some of which involve
> multiple ballots) since 2000, anywhere in the country. If you want to check
> my work, you can read a comprehensive list of the incidents below.
>
> To put this in perspective, the 31 incidents below come in the context of
> general, primary, special, and municipal elections from 2000 through 2014.
> In general and primary elections alone, more than 1 billion ballots
> <http://www.fec.gov/general/library.shtml> were cast in that period.
>
> Some of these 31 incidents have been thoroughly investigated (including
> some prosecutions). But many have not. Based on how other claims have
> turned out, I’d bet that some of the 31 will end up debunked: a problem
> with matching people from one big computer list to another, or a data entry
> error, or confusion between two different people with the same name, or
> someone signing in on the wrong line of a pollbook.
>
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>
> Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, fraudulent
> fraud squad <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8>, The Voting Wars
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter id
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>
>  “Florida Legislature: Don’t talk to congressional members, political
> consultants” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64060>
>
> Posted on August 6, 2014 7:55 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64060> by Rick
> Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Re-redistricting time.
> <http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/blogs/political-pulse/os-florida-legislatrure-bans-staff-from-talking-to-congressional-members-political-consultants-20140805,0,2275505.post>
>
> See also
>
> Senate orders redistricting records preserved after judge says GOP made
> ‘mockery’ of process.
> <http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/senate-orders-redistricting-records-preserved-after-judge-says-gop-made/2191296>
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> Posted in legislation and legislatures
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>, redistricting
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>
>  Torres-Spelliscy on Tokaji & Strause’s “The New Soft Money”
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64058>
>
> Posted on August 6, 2014 7:52 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64058> by Rick
> Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Here.
> <http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/quid-pro-whoa-new-soft-money#.U-FcDRCcsMc.twitter>
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> Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
>  “Candidate left off the Peoria council ballot considers lawsuit”
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64056>
>
> Posted on August 6, 2014 7:51 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64056> by Rick
> Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> News from AZ
> <http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/story/26205967/2014/08/05/candidate-left-off-the-peoria-council-ballot-considers-lawsuit>
> .
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>
> Posted in ballot access <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=46>, election
> administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
>  Wikipedia Features Article on Voting Rights Act of 1965 Today, Its 49th
> Anniversary <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64054>
>
> Posted on August 6, 2014 7:49 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64054> by Rick
> Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Read the article here
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965>.
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> Posted in Voting Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
>  “McDaniel staffer drawn into Fielder controversy (UPDATE)”
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64052>
>
> Posted on August 6, 2014 7:47 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64052> by Rick
> Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Clarion Ledger
> <http://www.clarionledger.com/story/dailyledes/2014/08/06/steven-fielder-noel-fritsch-interview/13657353/>
> :
>
> Stephen Fielder, the self-proclaimed pastor from Meridian, says a member
> of Chris McDaniel’s campaign paid him $2,000 to give an interview in which
> he accused a Thad Cochran campaign staffer of asking him to pay people to
> vote for the GOP incumbent.
>
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>
> Posted in chicanery <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>
>  “Election Tech Tuesday: Voting Information Project Offers Election
> Information App for Apple Mobile Devices”
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64050>
>
> Posted on August 6, 2014 7:45 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64050> by Rick
> Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Pew.
> <http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/about/news-room/news/2014/06/election-tech-tuesday-voting-information-project?utm_campaign=2014-08-06%20EIP.html&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua>
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>
> Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
>  “Prosecutors Must Prove Corrupt Intent in Trial of Former Virginia First
> Family” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64048>
>
> Posted on August 5, 2014 7:19 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64048> by Rick
> Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> NYT
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/us/prosecutors-must-prove-corrupt-intent-in-trial-of-virginia-first-family.html?ref=politics>
> on why a McDonnell conviction is no slam dunk, Ferraris, Rolexes and all.
>
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>
> Posted in bribery <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=54>, campaign finance
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, chicanery
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>
>  “The Value of Political Corruption” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64046>
>
> Posted on August 5, 2014 7:14 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64046> by Rick
> Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Interesting Tom Edsall column
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/opinion/thomas-edsall-the-value-of-political-corruption.html>
> .
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>
> Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, legislation
> and legislatures <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>, Supreme Court
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
>  “Wayne County judge to hear request to block absentee ballots in
> Dearborn Heights” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64044>
>
> Posted on August 5, 2014 4:23 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64044> by Rick
> Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Detroit News:
> <http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140805/POLITICS01/308050051/0/auto04%20avto%20shof/Michigan-Senate-candidate-files-lawsuit-block-absentee-ballots-Dearborn-Heights>“A
> Wayne County judge will hold a hearing Wednesday over a request to halt
> counting of absentee ballots in Dearborn Heights suspected of potential
> election fraud.”
>
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>
> Posted in absentee ballots <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=53>, election
> administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
>  Only 15 House Candidates Take Mayday PAC Campaign Finance Pledge
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64042>
>
> Posted on August 5, 2014 3:35 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64042> by Rick
> Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> According to DocDawg <http://t.co/xRmNwLVSKR>.
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>
> Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
>  Top Recent Downloads in Election Law on SSRN
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64037>
>
> Posted on August 5, 2014 3:24 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64037> by Rick
> Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> (my bimonthly listing)
>
> Here
> <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/topten/topTenResults.cfm?groupingId=991929&netorjrnl=jrnl>
> :
>
> *RECENT TOP PAPERS* for all papers first announced in the last 60 days
> <http://papers.ssrn.com/publicRss/rssManagerInc.cfm?journalId=991929>
> *6 Jun 2014 through 5 Aug 2014*
>
> *Rank*
>
> *Downloads*
>
> *Paper Title*
>
> 1
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> 54
>
> *Voter Privacy in the Age of Big Data*
> <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2447956>
> Ira Rubinstein
> <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=88200>
> New York University (NYU) – Information Law Institut
> *Date posted to database: *11 Jun 2014
> *Last Revised: *25 Jul 2014
>
> 2
>
> 33
>
> *‘You’ve Got Your Crook, I’ve Got Mine’: Why the Disqualification Clause
> Doesn’t (Always) Disqualify*
> <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2447970>
> Ben Cassady
> <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2255926>
> Yale University – Law School
> *Date posted to database: *11 Jun 2014
> *Last Revised: *24 Jun 2014
>
> 3
>
> 26
>
> *Constituting the Democratic Public: New Zealand’s Extension of National
> Voting Rights to Non-Citizens*
> <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2446466>
> Fiona Barker
> <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1871585> and Kate
> McMillan <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2249482>
> Victoria University of Wellington and Victoria University of Wellington –
> Political Science and International Relations Programme
> *Date posted to database: *6 Jun 2014
> *Last Revised: *18 Jun 2014
>
> 4
>
> 26
>
> *The Crimean Vote of March 2014 as an Abuse of the Institution of the
> Territorial Referendum*
> <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2463536>
> Anne Peters
> <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=341858>
> Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
> *Date posted to database: *9 Jul 2014
> *Last Revised: *9 Jul 2014
>
> 5
>
> 19
>
> *Redistricting by Formula: An Ohio Reform Experiment*
> <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2450645>
> Micah Altman
> <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=836555> and Michael
> P. McDonald
> <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=811078>
> MIT Libraries and George Mason University – Government and Politics
> *Date posted to database: *15 Jun 2014
> *Last Revised: *15 Jun 2014
>
> 6
>
> 18
>
> *Savior Through Severance: A Litigation-Based Response to Shelby County v.
> Holder* <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2444450>
> Cody Gray
> <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1688387>
> Princeton University
> *Date posted to database: *2 Jun 2014
> *Last Revised: *2 Jun 2014
>
> 7
>
> 18
>
> *Towards a Feminist Electoral Geography*
> <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2457175>
> Claire F. McGing
> <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1887411>
> National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth)
> *Date posted to database: *22 Jun 2014
> *Last Revised: *1 Jul 2014
>
> 8
>
> 17
>
> *Engineering an Election*
> <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2457502>
> Jonathan Zittrain
> <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=177769>
> Harvard Law School and Kennedy School
> *Date posted to database: *23 Jun 2014
> *Last Revised: *8 Jul 2014
>
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> Posted in pedagogy <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=23>
>  5th Circuit Affirms Denial of True the Vote Motion to Invervene in TX
> Voter ID Case <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64035>
>
> Posted on August 5, 2014 3:18 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64035> by Rick
> Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Unanimous order. <http://t.co/R1RxFgEYTu>
>
> (CLC press release
> <http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2565:august-5-2014-fifth-circuit-denies-true-the-votes-attempted-late-entry-into-texas-voter-id-challenge&catid=63:legal-center-press-releases&Itemid=61>
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> Posted in The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
>  “Conservatives Target Tennessee Justices in Expensive Race”
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64033>
>
> Posted on August 5, 2014 1:27 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64033> by Rick
> Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Important NYT report.
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/us/conservatives-target-tennessee-justices-in-expensive-race.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0>
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> Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, judicial
> elections <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=19>
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