“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.
(Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 296, Sec. 78. (AB 1023) Effective January 1, 2012.)