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Direct primary

noun

A primary where voters directly select the candidates who will run for office.

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... the steering committee have led to various proposals such as the initiative, referendum and direct primary. But these merely postponed or obscured the need for a machine by complicating the elections, or as H. G. Wells once said with scrupulous accuracy, the selections. For no amount of balloting can obviate the need of creating an ...

— Public Opinion • Walter Lippmann

... a Direct Primary Act. 2. The passage of an Employers' Liability Act. 3. The regulation of Public Utilities. 4. The passage of ...

— Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him • Joseph P. Tumulty

... lobby toured the State, telling the story of the legislative defeat and showing what would be the benefits of a direct primary law. During the Chautauqua meeting in the Yosemite in July, through the efforts of Assemblyman Drew of Fresno, an entire day and evening were granted for an excellent suffrage program of a strong political ...

— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI • Various