{"data":{"id":"us-ca/elec-332.5","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"ELEC § 332.5","heading":"","body":"“Nominate” means the selection, at a state-conducted primary election, of candidates who are entitled by law to participate in the general election for that office, but does not mean any other lawful mechanism that a political party may adopt for the purposes of choosing the candidate who is preferred by the party for a nonpartisan or voter-nominated office.","path":["Elections Code - ELEC","DIVISION 0.5. PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS [1. - 362.]","CHAPTER 4. Definitions [300. - 362.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"ec44d24eeb76285b443b05d2efe41b7eee9d0b927817ac95d0b757f64dba610a","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/elec-330","next":"us-ca/elec-333"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}