Vocab
This is the set of issues important to the political party and the party delegates
What is a platform?
This is the total number of electoral college votes and the number needed to win the election.
What are 538 and 270?
These four amendments have expanded voting rights for the people.
What are the 15th , 19th, 24th, and 26th amendments?
This is the reason why the US is not a direct democracy.
What is the fact that we have elected people who vote and pass laws on our behalf? (this is a republic)
The supreme court ruled 5-4 in favor of ...
Who are Citizens United?
This is the practice of voting only for candidates from the same party
What is straight ticket voting?
Someone who already holds a position in government is running again in the upcoming election. Because they are already in the government, and are therefore known by the people, they have this in their favor.
What is an incumbency advantage?
This landmark legislation causes a significant increase in minority people to register to vote
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This is a major advantage of direct democracy, where people have a more active role in government decisions.
What is increased citizen participation?
The clause/amendment used in the SCOTUS ruling in this case.
What is the first amendment freedom of speech?
This is a form of candidate nomination that occurs in a town-hall style format rather than a day-long election; usually reserved for presidential elections
What is a caucus?
These are what allow for people to donate money to support/fund a canididates campaign.
What are PACs?
These laws limit peoples ability to register to vote and decrease voter turnout.
What are voter registration laws?
This type of direct democracy is where the citizens petition for and propose a law or constitutional amendment.
What is an initiative?
This is the thing that was controversial in this case and now allows people to spend as much money on elections are they want.
What are Super PACs?
This is the constitutionally created group of individuals, chosen by the states, with the responsibility of formally selecting the next U.S. president
What is the Electoral College?
The act of influencing voters by using advertisements, social media, pamphlets and other things to persuade them to vote for a certain candidate is called this.
What is campaigning?
These are actions the government can take to increase voter turnout.
What are less limits on who can vote, less voter ID laws, more days/more convenient days to vote, and more places to vote.
This type of direct democracy is where citizens can vote to remove a government official from office.
What is a recall?
This was the constitutional question in this case.
Does limiting the political spending of group violate the first amendment freedom of speech
This is the result when a popular presidential candidate helps candidates from the same party win their own elections
What is the coattail effect?
These are some factors that influence people to vote.
What are platform issues, delegates/candidates, party loyalty, and advertisements, etc.
This demographic of people are more likely to vote.
Who are older people, higher income people, more educated people, people who more closely identify with a party, etc.
This type of direct democracy is where the citizens vote to confirm/repeal a government decision such as a law or a judicial appointment.
What is a referendum?
Hillary: the movie was relevent to this case in this way.
What is that it was produced within 30 days before primaries, so it violated the rules against cooperate funded advertisements during this period.