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- 4. a guarantee in the First Amendment
- 6. banning the use of soft money in federal campaigns and increasing the 1974 limits on individual and group contributions to candidates
- 7. elected party officials
- 8. voters may vote for candidates of either party
- 10. only voters who are registered in the party may vote to choose the candidate
- 11. choosing earlier and earlier dates to hold their primaries
- 14. occur when party loyalty becomes less important to voters
- 19. is a special election initiated by petition to allow citizens to remove an official from office before a term expires
- 20. occur when the minority party is able to win with the support of majority-party members, independents, and new voters
- 25. is the right to vote
- 27. occur during the year when no presidential election is held
- 28. allows citizens to nominate candidates
- 32. when no candidate from a party receives a majority of the votes
- 34. voting based on what voters perceive to be in their own best interest
- 36. allows citizens to vote directly on issues called propositions
- 37. elimination of poll taxes in federal elections
- 38. A vote for candidates of different political parties on the same ballot, instead of for candidates of only one party
- 39. occurs when the minority party wins by building a new coalition of voters that continues over successive elections
- 40. voting for candidates based upon the party to which they belong
- 41. occur when the traditional majority power maintains power based on the party loyalty of voters
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- 1. the supreme court ruled that limiting the ability of businesses, unions, and other groups to fund their own efforts to elect or defeat candidates for office is unconstitutional
- 2. allows lesser known or weaker candidates from the presidential candidates party to win by riding the “coattails” of the nominee
- 3. are nominating elections in which voters choose the candidates from each party who will run for office in the general election
- 5. states use this today to determine whom the state delegates to the national party convention will support
- 9. indicare sharp changes in existing patterns of party loyalty
- 12. elimination of gender disqualifications
- 13. are elections in which the voters choose from among all the candidates nominated by political parties or running as independents
- 15. elimination of race disqualifications
- 16. allows voters to petition to propose issues to be decided by qualified voters
- 17. was designed to make voter registration easier
- 18. occurs in early march when the greatest number of states hold presidential preference primaries on the same day
- 21. is the independent regulatory agency charged with administering and enforcing the federal campaign finance law.
- 22. when people do not believe their vote out of millions of votes will make a difference
- 23. lowering the minimum age for voting in federal elections to 18
- 24. when voters go to the polls on election day they are casting the popular vote this vote is actually for electors
- 25. allows for the direct election of senators
- 26. voting based on past performance of the candidate
- 29. meetings run by political parties that are held at the county, district, or precinct level
- 30. the citizens eligible to vote
- 31. voting based on how the voter believes the candidate will perform in office
- 33. donations to political parties that could be used for general purposes
- 35. voters may vote to choose the candidates of either party whether they belong to that party or not