{"id":5052,"date":"2012-06-01T13:43:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T20:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=5052"},"modified":"2012-06-01T13:43:16","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T20:43:16","slug":"the-primary-is-now-more-important-than-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/01\/the-primary-is-now-more-important-than-the-election\/","title":{"rendered":"The Primary is Now More Important than the Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

California just changed the election process so that the primary election (being held June 4th) is now more important than the election election (held this coming November).<\/p>\n

“Huh?” I hear you say.<\/p>\n

Here’s a good description from the California Secretary of State<\/a> Debra Bowen<\/p>\n

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What is a voter-nominated office?<\/h2>\n

The \u00a0Top Two Candidates Open Primary Act<\/a>, which took effect January 1, 2011, created “voter-nominated” offices. The Top Two Candidates Open Primary Act does not apply to candidates running for U.S. President, county central committees, or local offices.<\/p>\n

Most of the offices that were previously known as “partisan” are now known as “voter-nominated” offices. Voter-nominated offices are state constitutional offices, state legislative offices, and U.S. congressional offices. The only “partisan offices” now are the offices of U.S. President and county central committee.<\/p>\n

How are primary elections conducted in California?<\/h2>\n

All candidates for voter-nominated offices are listed on one ballot and only the top two vote-getters in the primary election \u2014 regardless of party preference – move on to the general election<\/strong><\/em>. A write-in candidate will only move on to the general election if the candidate is one of the top two vote-getters in the primary election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nThat’s weird. We’ll see how that goes. Maybe it’ll work out fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

California just changed the election process so that the primary election (being held June 4th) is now more important than the election election (held this coming November). “Huh?” I hear you say. Here’s a good description from the California Secretary of State Debra Bowen What is a voter-nominated office? The \u00a0Top Two Candidates Open Primary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}