Nominating Process
The naming of individuals who will seek office.
What is a nomination
A nominating election in which only party members can vote.
What is a closed primary.
The medium through which a voter registers a choice in an election.
What is a ballot.
When someone votes for all of the same party on a ticket.
What is straight ticket voting?
Nonparty groups that are often the arms of special-interest groups or other organizations at stake within an election.
What are political action committees
Party nominating election in which any qualified voter can participate.
What is an open primary.
Process by which voters may vote without going to their polling place on election day.
What is absentee voting.
This law was passed as a result of 2000 presidential vote counting fiasco in Florida
What is the Help America Vote Act
This court case ruled that money is speech.
What is Citizens United v. FEC
Qualifies voters cast a ballot in private for their preferred candidate to run in the general election.
What is a primary election
This type of primary occurs when there are multiple candidates and no one recieves 50% or more.
What is a runoff?
Voting trend seen in both the 2000(Republicans) and 2008(Democrats) elections that led to those parties gaining control of both chambers of Congress.
What is the Coattail Effect.
An organization that donates money to political office holders and candidtates. There are more than 4000 of these.
What are Political Action Committees (PACs)?
Government agency that requires the timely disclosure of campaign finance data, places limits on campaign contributions, places limits on campaign expenditures, and provides public funding for several parts of the presidential election process.
What is the Federal Election Commission.
Main benefit of closed primaries?
What is it keeps people from voting for the weaker candidate in the opposite party?
Provided at public expense, lists the names of all candidates in an election, given out to each voter only at polling places, and may be marked in secret.
What is the Australian Ballot.
Most states hold their elections in even number years on what day in november?
What is the first tuesday in November.
Money given to political parties or other organizations that has no limits placed on it.
What is soft money.
Secret balloting is compromised in this type of primary
What is a closed primary?
A ballot that lists so many offices and candidates that even a well-informed voter has a difficult time marking it intelligently and often leads to this. (2 Answers)
What is Bed-sheet Ballot, Ballot Fatigue.
This state now holds all of its elections by mail, and has done so since 1998.
What is the State of Oregon.
In 2012, both presidential candidates refused to take this for the first time since its inception 36 years earlier.
What is public money.