preference primary

"Moreover, the fact that President Biden happened to win a presidential preference contest - a primary or a caucus - in a particular state is irrelevant to whether he appears on the general election ballot there. There are any number of reasons why the candidate who wins a state's presidential preference primary might not go on to be that party's ultimate presidential nominee."

Aguilar had hoped the State Bar of Nevada would have implemented his proposal before Nevada’s Feb. 6 presidential preference primary, but the secretary of state’s office has yet to make a formal request for the association to consider, per the State Bar.

In an interview with ProPublica, Parks said the party’s central committee decided not to participate in Nevada’s new presidential preference primary election because it wants to demonstrate what he contends is the proper way to run an election: required identification, paper ballots and hand-counting with results reported on the same day.

The candidate is one of 20 people, Democrat and Republican, whose names appear on the ballot during the statewide Presidential Preference Primary race on Tuesday.

Back in 2021, Democrats who controlled state government passed a law requiring the state to hold a presidential preference primary.