Jim Boydston, et al. v. Shirley N. Weber, California Secretary of State, et al.

Where, under State law, the selection of a political party’s presidential nominee is governed by internal party rules and procedures and not by the results of the State-administered presidential-primary election, may the State—consistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments—lawfully require registered voters wanting to participate in the State-administered presidential-primary election to, as a condition of participating, formally associate with the political party of the nominee for whom the voters desire to cast a vote?

Did the California Court of Appeal err in concluding that primary votes cast by non-partisan (“no party preference” or “NPP”) voters in California’s presidential primary are not subject to constitutional protection under this Court’s Anderson/Burdick framework merely because one or more political parties may choose not to consider those votes during their candidate-nomination process?