By Paul Mitchell : capitolweekly – excerpt

While the Attorney General, Secretary of State and California Courts wade into whether former President Donald Trump will be on the Republican Primary ballot in 2024, California counties are in the process of mailing out ballots that will be sent the first week of February.

And even if Trump stays on the Republican primary ballot, there will be more than a quarter-million voters who have previously voted in a Republican Presidential primary who won’t find him on their ballot. And over 650,000 voters who previously voted in the Democratic primary who won’t find President Joe Biden on theirs.

Welcome to one of the most confusing parts of the election process in California: the Closed Primary.

While California has moved its legislative, congressional and statewide elections to an open-primary system, where all candidates from all parties are shown on the same ballot, the presidential elections still use a traditional primary system, with slightly different processes for Democrats and Republicans…(more)