S. 2024 would provide for interregional primary elections and caucuses for the selection of delegates to political party Presidential nominating conventions.

== Detailed Summary ==

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This bill would create an interregional primary system. Six primaries would be held on six specific Tuesdays from March to June. The states would be divided into geographical regions. Each of the primaries would consist of one or more states from every region of the country. A lottery would determine the order of the primaries in the 'summary' tags if you wantfirst election year. After the latest summaryfirst election year, the sequence would rotate, so that all the states would take turns holding earlier, middle, and later primaries.

Here is how the regions and groups are arranged:

Region 1: (A) Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont; (B) Massachusetts; (C) Connecticut, Rhode Island; (D) Delaware, New Jersey; (E) New York; (F) Pennsylvania.

Region 2: (A) Maryland; (B) West Virginia; (C) Missouri; (D) Indiana; (E) Kentucky; (F) Tennessee.

Region 3: (A) Ohio; (B) Illinois; (C) Michigan; (D) Wisconsin; (E) Iowa; (F) Minnesota.

Region 4: (A) Texas; (B) Louisiana; (C) Arkansas, Oklahoma; (D) Colorado; (E) Kansas, Nebraska; (F) Arizona, New Mexico.

Region 5: (A) Virginia; (B) North Carolina; (C) South Carolina; (D) Florida; (E) Georgia; (F) Mississippi, Alabama.

Region 6: (A) California; (B) Washington; (C) Oregon; (D) Idaho, Nevada, Utah; (E) Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming; (F) Hawaii, Alaska.

The groups from each of the Congressional Research Service automaticallyregions would remain consistent, so that the Group (A) states would always share the same primary, the Group (B) states would always share the same primary, and so on. When the primary sequence rotated, the groups would rotate together.

For example, if the lottery selected Group (A) to replacehold the text betweenfirst primary, the states that would participate in that first primary would be Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont from Region 1, Maryland from Region 2, Ohio from Region 3, Texas from Region 4, Virginia from Region 5, and California from Region 6. The second primary would be the Group (B) states, which would consist of Massachusetts from Region 1, West Virginia from Region 2, Illinois from Region 3, Louisiana from Region 4, North Carolina from Region 5, and Washington from Region 6.

The specific Tuesdays for the six primaries would be 2nd Tuesday in March, 1st and 4th Tuesdays in April, 2nd and 4th Tuesdays in May, and 2nd Tuesday in June. For each election, the groups would rotate through the sequence, so that if Group (A) was first in 2012, they would be last in 2016, 5th in 2020, 4th in 2024, and so on until they were first again in 2036.

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(Source: The Library of Congress on Thomas, http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:S.2024: )

== Status of the Legislation ==

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Latest Major Action: 9/6/2007: Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
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