If Washington state’s new primary election system was a candidate it would’ve lost in a landslide. The majority of voters seemed peeved that the old blanket primary had been dumped, but predictions of ...

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 to ...

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 Republican ...

Blanket primary: Voters may choose any candidate, from any party, in any race. The top vote-getter from each party in each race advances to the general election. Washington had this system from 1936 ...

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 ruled ...

On Friday, senators passed Bill 173, which would cancel the primary election for the Legislature, governor, delegate, mayor, vice mayor, public auditor or attorney general if there aren’t more ...

While overshadowed by the sound and fury of the candidate contests, Proposition 14 on the June primary ballot could even more profoundly affect Republican fortunes because it would permanently, ...

Guam should either get rid of its two-part primary election, or transition to a nonpartisan blanket primary. Sen. Joe San Agustin recently introduced Bill 45, which would eliminate primary elections.

Federal judge Franklin Burgess has sustained, for now, the "blanket primary," Washington State's 60-year-old process of nominating candidates for office wherein voters can cross party lines with ...

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, especially if they are to continue being ...

A federal judge yesterday upheld Washington's popular 67-year-old "blanket" primary system that allows any voter to choose any candidate of any political party in partisan races. The ruling by U.S.

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, which would eliminate the primary election, ...