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—we upheld the statute, and commented: "There is nothing in the constitution... which prohibits the legislature from providing at a primary [election] for an expression of a choice as to a candidate for United States senator. It is within the general legislative power to do so...."
- in Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assn. v. Padilla, 2016 and 8 similar citations
The difficulty with respondent's reliance on Professional Fire Fighters, Inc., and his argument otherwise, is that California courts have already determined that the conduct of municipal elections is a municipal affair and subject to municipal control
- in Mackey v. Thiel, 1968 and 4 similar citations
"[T] he election of municipal officers is strictly a municipal affair...[and] city charters prevail over the general law as far as regulating the method in which a charter election shall be conducted
- in Johnson v. Bradley, 1992 and 3 similar citations
—and (2) to preserve the integrity of the parties by limiting the right to participate in the primary to persons who are committed to the principles of the party, sympathetic with its aims and loyal to its tenets
- in Moore v. Panish, 1982 and 4 similar citations
—at page 792, "The power is vested in the legislature under section 2 1/2 of article II, to determine the tests and conditions upon which participation in a primary election may be had either by electors as voters thereat or by electors as candidates thereunder. The right is thus conferred to prescribe any reasonable test and it is the duty of the legislature to prescribe one …
- in Communist Party v. Peek, 1942 and 3 similar citations
"The right and duty of the legislature to prescribe a test for electors voting at a primary cannot be questioned, nor do we perceive any reasonable grounds for questioning the validity of a test as to candidates (Socialist Party
- in Reports of Cases Determined by the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada and 4 similar citations
—the Court after holding that the advisory vote for United States senator was germain to the subject of a primary election and therefore valid proceeded to say: "Of course it is conceded that the matter of selecting a United States Senator lies with the legislature as an elective body and that such selection cannot be made at a primary election. What is provided for in the act …
- in The Lawyer and Banker and Central Law Journal and 3 similar citations
Under such power the City was entitled to provide for election procedures since such procedures in a chartered city are municipal affairs
- in City of Redwood City v. Moore, 1965 and 2 similar citations
In an early decision by this court construing article II, section 2½ of the Constitution (later renumbered section 2.5), we observed that "[t] he right is thus conferred to prescribe any reasonable test and it is the duty of the [L] egislature to prescribe one
- in Patterson v. Padilla, 2019 and 2 similar citations
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