ELECTION SYSTEM QUIZ

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Across
  1. 4. a person or organization that donates money to a candidate’s campaign for office.
  2. 6. a meeting where a political party chooses its presidential candidate.
  3. 7. a person who already holds an office and is running for reelection
  4. 8. place, a place where voters go to cast their votes in an election.
  5. 9. a form of government in which people hold power, either by voting for measures directly or by voting for representatives who vote for them.
  6. 11. the person running for elected office.
  7. 12. the right, privilege, or act of voting.
  8. 13. either in paper form or electronic, the way voters show their vote preferences or a list of candidates. (ballot box: the box used to hold ballots to be counted).
  9. 14. voter, A person who chooses to register to vote with no party affiliation. The decision to register as an independent voter does not register a voter with any third party although these third parties are often referred to as independent parties.
Down
  1. 1. the candidate a political party chooses or nominates, to run in the national election.
  2. 2. mate, a candidate who is running for office with another candidate on the same ticket. (Example: president and vice president.)
  3. 3. a member of the House of Representatives, also called a congressman or congresswoman.
  4. 4. voters, voters who do not have a commitment to a particular political party.
  5. 5. vote, a tally of all the votes citizens have cast in the presidential election.
  6. 6. parties and symbols, The Republican Party is symbolized as an elephant. The Democratic Party is symbolized as a donkey.
  7. 8. A political party's formal statement of basic principles, stands on major issues, and objectives.
  8. 10. the people who have been chosen to represent each state at a political party’s convention.