Question

Which type of primary is being described below?

Voters declare their party allegiance and request ballots for their own party.
Independents are excluded.
Most states use this primary system.

Closed Primary

Open Primary

Wide-Open Primary

Answer 1

The correct answer is A) Closed Primary.

The type of primary that is described below is Closed Primary.

Before election time, the members of a party have to register in order to participate. At this moment, people express their party affiliation so other parties know that they belong to this specific party and avoid election problems with memberships. In the Closed Primary, only registered people can participate. In this type of election, party members declare their allegiance and request ballots for their own party. Independents are excluded.

Answer 2

Answer:

The correct answer is the option A: Closed Primary.

Explanation:

The primaries elections are the procedure where the people can express their preferance for the political parties that are going to be candidates during the upcoming election. Moreover, the ''Closed Primary'' is a voting election system that it is used in twelve states of the United States of America and where only the registered members of the political party can vote and the indenpendents or ''non-partisan'' parties can not vote.