Open Primary | Ballot Brief | KCET

For state elections, California holds an open primary, which means you don’t have to vote along party lines. If you are a registered Democrat you can vote as a Republican and vice versa. This change happened after after voters passed the California Top Two Primaries Act. Now the top two candidates regardless of party will be up for election in November. So, we could see two Democrats running for Governor, instead of one Democrat and one Republican. Although for Presidential elections you still have to vote along party lines.

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[nlpnt]

What you have is something different from a traditional open primary - in those, either the poll worker asks which party ballot you'd like to vote today and hands you one, or just gives you multiple separate ballots that you're only supposed to vote one of. Still a winner for each party, still no chance of shutouts. The California top-two or jungle primary is its' own thing.

[CathLenaMusic]

Andrew Yang is starting a new party and is going to try and get open primaries everywhere

[isbestlizard]

Why is the government involved at all, in the internal candidate selection processes of a political party? Why is public money being spent helping these private organisations conduct their balloting?