Editing Primary election (section)

==References==
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* Ware, Alan. ''The American Direct Primary: Party Institutionalization and Transformation in the North'' (2002)], the invention of primaries around 1900 --they were promoted by regular party leaders as well as reformers [http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/primary-types.aspx online]