How the Wealth Primary Is Undermining Voting Rights. (cover story)

WEALTH; SUFFRAGE; PRIMARIES; POLITICAL candidates; INDEPENDENT expenditure political action committees; UNITED States presidential election, 1992; CAMPAIGN funds; UNITED States politics & government, 1989-; ECONOMICS; ACTIONS & defenses (Law)

The article discusses the impacts that wealth is having on primary elections and voting rights in the U.S. as of 2015. According to the article, a wealth primary uses access to money as an obstacle to political candidacy for nonaffluent Americans. It states that the phrase wealth primary was introduced during the 1992 U.S. presidential election involving candidates Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush. Campaign finance lawsuits and independent expenditure political action committees are examined.