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Elections
Nominations
Conventions
Primaries
Bonus
100
The National Bonus, District plan, Proportional plan, and the Popular election plan.
What are the 4 major proposed reforms to elect a president?
100
The naming of those who will seek office.
What is Nomination?
100
This city has held the greatest amount of National Conventions than any other city.
What is Chicago?
100
party nominatingelection in which only declared party members can vote
What is a closed primary
100
Scheme by which a presidential vacancy is filled.
What is presidential succession
200
The ever present threat that the winner of the popular vote will not be president
What is the first major defect?
200
A person simply announces they would like to be a candidate for office. Found in small towns and rural areas.
What is Self-Announcement?
200
The amount of these is dependent on the states electoral votes
Who are National Convention Delegates?
200
party nominating election in which ANY qualified voter can take part
What is an open primary
200
Secretary of State
Who is the fourth in line in the presidential succession
300
This group of persons chosen every 4 years to elect the president
What is the electoral college?
300
It is held within a party to decide the candidates for the general election.
What is Direct Primary?
300
The amount of campaigns during an election
How many is 2?
300
this is sometimes called the "wide open primary"
What is the blanket primary
300
1) To preside over the senate, and 2) To help decide the question of presidential disability
What are the 2 duties of the vice president
400
This problem with the voting process does not require the electoral college to vote for the winner of the popular vote.
What is the second major defect?
400
This form of nomination is used to nominate candidates for public office by having a certain number of qualified voters sign the petition.
What is Petition?
400
How many delegates for each convention come from the states who hold presidential primaries?
What is 75%?
400
in this primary the top two vote-getters in the first direct primary face one another and the winner of that vote becomes the nominee
what is a runoff primary
400
DAILY DOUBLE He was the first president to be assassinated
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
500
Under this plan, the winner of the popular vote would receive 102 votes in the electoral college.
What is the National Bonus plan?
500
Was held in Baltimore in 1831.
What is The first Convention?
500
The campaign before the primaries, and after.
What is the campaign process?
500
in most states all or nearly all of the elected school and municiple buildings are filled in theses elections
What is a nonpartisan election
500
DAILY DOUBLE This president was wrapped and buried in the United States flag with a copy of the constitution
Who is Andrew Johnson