Who Votes
How They Vote
Choosing a Candidate
Election Regulation
Potpourri
100
The right to vote, a fundamental principle of a democratic government.
What is suffrage?
100
Voting for candidates of different parties for different offices
What is split-ticket voting?
100
Local party meetings to select delegates to state convention, which then selects delegates to party’s national convention
What are caucuses?
100
National Voter Registration Act of 1993 requires that states pass these laws allowing voters to register when they renew their driver’s licenses or apply for social services.
What is the Motor Voter Law?
100
A reason for low turnout in U.S. elections; generally defined as a lack of interest in politics, but may also result from a mistrust in government or lack of political efficacy; generally, younger people, racial and ethnic minorities, males, and lower income individuals have the greatest issues with this.
What is voter apathy?
200
Guarantees the right to vote to all races.
What is the 15th Amendment?
200
Voting based on positions on specific policies
What is issue voting?
200
Election in which voters choose which party’s primary ballot they wish to vote on.
What is an open primary?
200
Independent regulatory agency founded in 1975 to enforce federal campaign finance laws and administer public financing of presidential campaigns.
What is the Federal Elections Commission?
200
The belief that a person can influence politics and public policy making.
What is political efficacy?
300
Extended the right to vote to women.
What is the 19th Amendment?
300
Proposed law or state amendment referred by the state legislature to the people for a vote; only at the state level, and only in some states.
What is a referendum?
300
Election in which only voters registered in the party may vote in the party’s primary.
What is a closed primary?
300
Supreme Court ruled that Federal Election Campaign act campaign spending limits violated First Amendment guarantees of freedom of expression.
What is Buckley v. Valeo?
300
Before the primary system, this meeting served the purpose of choosing the party’s nominee for president; in recent years, its fundamental purpose is the adoption of the party platform.
What is the National Convention?
400
Lowered age requirement to vote to 18 in all states.
What is the 26th Amendment?
400
Proposed state law or amendment brought by the citizens through a petition process; only at the state level, and only in some states.
What is an initiative?
400
Election in which only one primary ballot is used and voters may choose from candidates of either party and split votes between them; ONLY used in Louisiana, Washington, and California.
What is a blanket primary?
400
Money donated to a political party rather than a candidate to avoid limits imposed by campaign finance reform laws, a loophole closed by the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act (2002).
What is soft money?
400
Choosing an early date to hold the primary election in a state.
What is frontloading?
500
Term used to describe the voters of a nation, state, city, or county collectively.
What is the electorate?
500
Special election initiated by a petition that allows citizens to remove an official before his/her term has expired; only in some states.
What is a recall?
500
Democratic Party leaders who are able to cast votes at the national convention for the party’s presidential candidate.
What are Superdelegates?
500
Nonprofit organizations that engage in issue advocacy, not candidate advocacy – a fine line often blurred; not subject to campaign finance limitations.
What are 527 Groups?
500
The most important single factor in determining how someone will vote in an election.
What is party identification?
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