an oxymoronic method for a party to choose its nominees, and ridiculously susceptible to gaming the system with cross-over votes for weak candidates
All registered voters may participate in the primary, whether they are registered as Democrats, Republicans or independents.
Election held for the purposes of choosing the nominee for a particular political party in which voters of any party are eligible to vote.
a primary in which all registered voters can vote, regardless of which party they have registered under.
A primary election system in which voters can vote for candidates of any party, not simply the party in which they are registered.
An Open Primary is a type of direct primary open to voters regardless of their party affiliation. Voters need not publicly declare their party affiliation but must vote for candidates of only one party. The opposite is a closed primary, in which only registered members of a party may vote.