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electoral process

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naming those who will
run for office.
nomination
_ party system
2
voters make final
selection of officeholders.
General Elections
1.Oldest form (colonial)🡪 now used in small/rural
towns.
Person announces they want to run.(type of nomination)
self announcement
2.grp who meets to select a
candidate they will all support.(Many oppose b/c of unrepresentative character.)
caucus
3.-replaced caucus method, soon replaced by direct primary, series of delegates
convention
4. -Held within party to choose party’s
candidate for gen. election.
-Most states use this method.
Direct Primary Method:
Party election🡪 only party members can vote.(27 states)
closed primary
Party election🡪any qualified voter can take part.
open primary
“Wide-open
primary”🡪 found unconstitutional
blanket primary
if a majority of the votes are not acquired, top 2 vote-getters face off and voters vote
Runoff primary
candidates are not identified with party labels. Winner runs unopposed in gen.election unless write-in.
Non partisan Primary
5. nomination by petitions signed by required # of voters.
petitions
____ regulate voting
states
federal Set date for congressional elections: 1s Tuesday foll. 1st Monday in _____. of every
even-num. yr. 🡪 same for Pres. Elections
November
required the use of _____ ballots
secret
Help ____ _____ Act (2002)
Americans vote
Replace all lever operated/punch voting devices by
____
2006
_____ voting: challenged voters votes can count
later found legal
Provisional
Centralize and computerize voter ______systems
registration
those unable to vote at a
reg. polling place.
absentee voting
before election to increase voter
turnout
early voting
strong candidate at the top
helps attract voters to those at bottom of
ballot
coattail
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voting district( smallest)
Precinct:
place where those who live in a
precinct actually vote.
Polling place
device used to cast a choice
ballot
their are _ types
5
printed by public, lists candidate names, given out at polls to voters, marked
in secret.(used by the usa)
Australian
candidates for an office are grp together
office group
listed under party name:
encourages straight ticket voting
Party-column
help prepare for an election/not cast
sample
long ballots
bedsheet
1907🡪 illegal for corp.’s and ____ ____ to make
money contributions for fed. office.
national bank
____(1971)🡪 amdts. ’74 & ’76,
FECA
_____ Camp. Reform Act 2002.
Bipartisan
administers all fed. laws dealing w/
campaign finance.
FEC
1974🡪 _ members appoint. by Pres.
6
_ basic laws
4
______ require.
disclosure
Limits on _______
contributions
Limits on ____ (spending)
Expenditures
“Money is ____”
speech
“More loophole than law.” who said this
LBJ
money raised and spent to elect cand. for Congress and Pres.🡪Regulated by the FEC
hard money
funds given to party organ. for “party-building activities.”🡪 major loophole
soft money
ban soft-money contrib.🡪 but other indep. pol grps. still contribute (not restricted under law)
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act:
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