BALLOTS & POWER
This body of electors, rather than the national popular vote alone, formally determines the winner of a U.S. presidential election.
What is the Electoral College?
This freedom allows people to express their opinions, debate public issues, and criticize government without unfair punishment.
What is freedom of speech?
This term describes false or misleading information that is deliberately created or spread to deceive people, including voters.
What is disinformation?
This major American sports league is known for basketball and has teams such as the Los Angeles Lakers, Boston Celtics, and Golden State Warriors.
What is the NBA?
This term describes non-military international engagement through culture, education, dialogue, exchange programs, and people-to-people connections.
What is public diplomacy?
These state-level elections are used by political parties to choose or influence who will become their presidential nominee.
What are primaries and caucuses?
These organized groups compete in elections by presenting candidates and ideas to voters. In the U.S., the two major ones are the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
What are political parties?
This type of AI can generate realistic text, images, audio, video, or code and may be used both creatively and deceptively during campaigns.
What is generative AI?
This American boxer became globally known not only for his athletic excellence, but also for his outspoken views on race, war, religion, and justice.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This U.S. institution in Nairobi represents American diplomatic interests in Kenya and supports visas, cultural programs, education exchanges, and bilateral cooperation.
What is the U.S. Embassy?
This term refers to the redrawing of electoral district boundaries, sometimes controversially done to benefit one political party.
What is gerrymandering?
These first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution protect civil liberties such as freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and due process.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This term refers to highly realistic fake video, audio, or images created or manipulated using artificial intelligence.
What is a deepfake?
This major American football championship is also famous for its halftime show, advertisements, and national attention.
What is the Super Bowl?
These programs, such as Fulbright and other educational exchanges, promote mutual understanding by allowing students, scholars, and professionals to study or work across countries.
What are exchange programs?
This number represents the total electoral votes in the U.S. Electoral College, combining 435 House seats, 100 Senate seats, and 3 votes for Washington, D.C.
What is 538?
This system allows each branch of the U.S. government to limit the power of the others. For example, Congress can pass laws, the president can veto them, and courts can review them.
What are checks and balances?
This digital practice involves checking claims, sources, dates, images, and context before believing or sharing political content online.
What is fact-checking?
This American tennis champion, along with her sister Venus, became a global symbol of excellence, discipline, and representation in sports.
Who is Serena Williams?
This American president, whose father was Kenyan, became the first Black president of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
This minimum number of electoral votes is required to win the U.S. presidency.
What is 270?
This amendment gave women the right to vote in the United States in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This broad term refers to efforts to protect election-related technology, voter data, and official systems from hacking, interference, or digital attacks.
What is election cybersecurity?
This phrase describes the democratic idea that political competition, like sports, should follow clear rules, allow fair participation, and respect final results.
What is fair play?
This broad term describes official relationships between countries, including cooperation on trade, education, security, health, climate, and culture.
What is diplomacy?