Voting Basics
This term means the right to vote
What is suffrage?
This is the process of a political party selecting a candidate to run for office.
What is nomination?
This election is used to choose a party's candidate for the general election.
What is a direct primary?
This organization raises and spends money to influence elections and political outcomes.
What is a PAC?
This is an organized group that seeks to influence government by winning elections and controlling government offices.
What is a political party?
This term refers to the people who are eligible to vote.
What is the electorate?
n this nomination method, a person announces that they intend to run for office.
What is self-announcement?
In this type of primary, voters are not limited to voting only in the party primary associated with their prior party registration.
What is an open primary?
This is campaign money subject to federal regulation and contribution limits.
What is hard money?
This term describes strong support for a particular political party.
What is partisanship?
This amendment prohibited denying the right to vote based on race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This nomination method involves a meeting of party members to select or support candidates.
What is a caucus?
In this type of primary, participation is limited according to party affiliation/registration rules.
What is a closed primary?
This term refers to money raised outside the limits that apply to direct federal candidate contributions, historically including party activity.
What is soft money?
These are the two dominant political parties in the United States.
What are the major parties? (Democrats and Republicans)
This amendment extended voting rights to women.
19th Amendment
This is a formal gathering used by a political party to conduct party business and nominate candidates.
What is a convention?
This type of primary does not use party labels to distinguish candidates.
What is a nonpartisan primary?
These advertisements focus on political issues rather than explicitly telling voters to vote for or against a candidate.
What are issue ads?
This is a geographic voting district used to organize elections.
What is an electoral precinct?
This practice required voters to pay a fee as a condition of voting.
Poll Taxes
This nomination method uses signatures to place a candidate's name on the ballot.
What is a petition?
This election is held to choose among candidates for office after the nomination process.
What is a general election?
This is the form or mechanism used by voters to indicate their choices in an election.
What is a ballot?
This is the location where voters cast their ballots.
What is a polling place?