WASHINGTON (NEWSnet/AP) — Puerto Rico will hold a Democratic presidential primary on Sunday, providing the only opportunity most registered voters on the island get to cast ballots in the 2024 race for the White House.

As with other U.S. territories, voters in Puerto Rico can’t cast ballots in the general presidential election.

But they may participate in presidential primaries; and send delegates to both the Democratic and Republican national conventions this summer.

President Joe Biden has already won enough delegates to secure the Democratic nomination and faces minimal opposition on the ballot Sunday.

Puerto Rico’s Democratic primary was originally scheduled for March 17, but party officials moved the event and reduced the number of polling places after it became clear Biden had already secured the nomination numbers.

The party estimates the scaled-back primary will cost less than $60,000, down from the approximately $1 million the State Elections Commission had originally budgeted.

In the meantime, Puerto Rico Republicans canceled their traditional primary and instead awarded their 23 delegates to former President Donald Trump on Sunday in a caucus-style vote at which approximately 77% of 1,340 eligible party officials participated. Trump was the only candidate on that ballot.

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