The U.S. Supreme Court refused yesterday to spare the life of Washington's popular but fatally flawed blanket primary, raising deep uncertainty about what will replace it -- and even whether ...

What is a blanket primary? In 1996, Californians passed a proposition to implement an open primary system that was subsequently struck down by the Supreme Court.

Local leaders of the two major political parties rejoiced Monday after learning that the U.S. Supreme Court had thrown out California’s “blanket primary” system, returning to them more ...

With a ringing defense of partisanship in American politics, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that primary election systems that allow voters to cast ballots for candidates of any political party ...

Guam should either get rid of its current primary election model, or transition to a nonpartisan blanket primary. Last week, Sen. Joe San Agustin’s Bill 45, ...

OLYMPIA — Secretary of State Sam Reed on Tuesday proposed a "modified blanket primary" similar to the so-called Cajun Primary pioneered by Louisiana, allowing the top two vote-getters to advance ...

A federal judge on Wednesday upheld Washington’s popular "blanket" primary system that allows all voters to help pick partisan finalists for public offices. U.S. District Judge Franklin Burgess ...

Today's primary election will give Washington voters what may be their last opportunity to skip back and forth across a primary ballot -- voting for a Democrat for one elective office, a ...

Blanket primary is better. MGM. They're called party primaries, but in Alabama the parties don't pay for them. The taxpayers do. It's time to reconsider the structure of these elections ...

In the aftermath of the 2000 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared the blanket primary unconstitutional — at least before we all lawyered up — Secretary of State Sam Reed held a few meetings ...

This trend has repeated itself for most of the past three decades, whether under Washington's blanket primary system before 2004 or top-two primary dating back to 2008.