Blanket primary: Voters may choose any candidate, from any party, in any race. The top vote-getter from each party in each race advances to the general election. Washington had this system from 1936 ...

Today's primary election will give Washington voters what may be their last opportunity to skip back and forth across a primary ballot -- voting for a Democrat for one elective office, a Republican ...

OLYMPIA -- Secretary of State Sam Reed yesterday proposed a "modified blanket primary" similar to the so-called Cajun Primary pioneered by Louisiana, allowing the top two vote-getters to advance to ...

Federal judge Franklin Burgess has sustained, for now, the "blanket primary," Washington State's 60-year-old process of nominating candidates for office wherein voters can cross party lines with ...

OLYMPIA — Washington state will appeal a federal court decision that abolished the state’s popular 68-year-old blanket primary, which allows voters to split their tickets and avoid party registration.