preference primary

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Lombardo told The Nevada Independent that he will caucus for Trump on Feb. 8 and write-in “none of the above” in the presidential preference primary on Feb. 6.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 18, 2024

President Joe Biden and eight others, including self-help author Marianne Williamson, have filed to run in the Democratic presidential preference primary Feb. 6 in Nevada.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 16, 2023

The five qualifying parties had until Wednesday to submit to the State Board of Elections their lists of candidates for the presidential preference primary.

From Washington Times • Dec. 4, 2019

Herbert Hoover was induced to enter the Maryland preference primary to quash, once & for all, the nuisance value of Dr. Joseph Irwin France, his only an nounced rival for the presidential nomination.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1912 a number of states passed what are known as "presidential preference primary" laws under which delegates to the national conventions of that year were chosen.

From Government in the United States National, State and Local by Garner, James Wilford