Nominations for Elective Office in the United States
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* Maryland, Tennessee, and Arkansas have no statutory provisions whatever upon the subject ; while in Alabama, the provisions of the law apply only to pri- mary elections held in the County of Mobile. In most of the States, the legal pro- visions take the form of special laws ; but in Ohio and Indiana, the law simply provides that whenever a primary election is held, the same laws which govern regular elections shall apply. SECT. 2. ] THE "CRAWFORD COUNTY SYSTEM. " 129 and never, except in Sout...h Carolina, in any political division larger than a congressional district, although it obviously might be applied to an entire State. Aside from the trouble and expense, the chief objection to the plan is that it intro- duces another step into our already complicated system, as candidates to be voted for at the primary election will have to be nominated at "parlor caucuses" or elsewhere, and the real nomination will thus be transferred from open primaries to secret conclaves. But the same objection, in stronger form, lies against the present system of open primaries and conven- tions, the nominations in very many cases, as we have already seen, being really made at secret meetings previously held.
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