National Primary Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] National Primary Act - Provides that the official candidates of political parties for President and Vice President shall be nominated at a primary election by direct popular vote. Stipulates that in such primary election each voter shall be eligible to vote only in the primary of the party of his registered affiliation. Declares that such primary election shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in August in the year preceding the expiration of the regular term of President and Vice President. Specifies that no person shall be a candidate for nomination for President or Vice President except in the primary of his registered affiliation. Provides that no person shall be a candidate for nomination for President or Vice President unless he shall have filed a petition with the President of the Senate not later than the First Tuesday after the first Monday in June of the year in which the next such primary is to be held. Requires such petition to have been signed on or after the first day of January of such year by a number of qualified voters, in any or all of the several States, equal in number to at least 1 per cent, but not more than two per cent, of the total numbe…