Assignments from Column C (20 points) - Pick 1 Create Your Own Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. seek to influence (a politician or public official) on an issue.
  2. 5. Voting for candidates from different parties on the same ballot.
  3. 7. a contribution to a political party that is not accounted as going to a particular candidate, thus avoiding various legal limitations.
  4. 9. A preliminary election in which a party's candidates for public office are nominated by direct vote of the people.
  5. 10. Proof of tax payment, to be produced when voting; used to disenfranchise blacks
  6. 12. A set of ideas, description of existing political order, vision of ideal political order, a means to transform the existing to ideal
  7. 14. An election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins.
  8. 15. an alliance for combined action, especially a temporary alliance of political parties forming a government or of states.
  9. 16. The person already holding a political office.
  10. 17. An individual who actively promotes a political party, philosophy, or issue she or he cares personally about
  11. 18. the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number
Down
  1. 1. the study of the rights and duties of citizenship.
  2. 3. a group, however loosely or tightly organized, that is determined to encourage or prevent changes in public policy without trying to be elected.
  3. 4. Body of people allowed to vote in an election.
  4. 6. a regular election of candidates for office, as opposed to a primary election.
  5. 8. Requirment that voters be able to read; formerly used in the South to disenfranchise blacks.
  6. 10. Granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support.
  7. 11. citizens' faith and trust in government and their belief that they can understand and influence political affairs.
  8. 13. system designed to reduce voter fraud by limiting voting to those who have established eligibility to role by submitting the proper documents
  9. 15. A meeting of people, often in an auditorium or church basement, where they vote on who they would like their party's nominee to be.