Sep 25, 2019
5 min read
The 2020 Election: The Effect of Open Primaries
Like most political science concepts, the term “open primary” is a bit confusing and isn’t always used consistently. Technically, an open primary is one in which you don’t have to be affiliated with a political party to vote in that party’s primary — but, because states have all kinds of different rules about the technicalities of this process, political scientists (or whoever it is that comes up with these…
