# Election Day \[Week\]\[Month\[s\]\] \[Year\] 2020 follow-along thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 3, 2020, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618 "2020-11-03T05:36:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7765
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7765 "2020-12-13T17:05:01Z")
I asked this same question back in the spring. The answer seemed to be that the party could not keep a candidate off a state-run primary, but if that candidate won the primary, the party was not obliged to recognise delegates for that candidate at the convention (speaking of presidential primaries). > [@Could the Democratic Party have kept Bernie off the primaries?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-democratic-party-have-kept-bernie-off-the-primaries/851867): > > This point has come up in various permutations over the past few months, and as a furriner, I’m confused. Over in the “Bernie Withdraws” thread, Left Hand of Dorkness says this: But I thought, from previous threads on primaries, that access to the ballot for primary elections is determined by state laws? And if you as a candidate meet the state’s requirements to enter a primary, the party can’t keep you from entering? And, since those state laws are set by the 50 states, there are 50 differ… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618)._