Elections Vocabulary

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  1. 2. An organized effort to win an election.
  2. 3. The group of people who formally selects the United States president.
  3. 7. a person who legally belongs to, gives allegiance to, and has the rights and protections of a country.
  4. 8. A choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor or oppose to a position. The right to vote in political elections is called suffrage.
  5. 9. Party An organization that seeks to achieve political power by electing its members to public office.
  6. 10. A person active in politics, or a person holding or seeking an office in government. Politicians propose, support and create laws or policies that govern the land and, by extension, its people.
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  1. 1. Is a device used to cast votes in an election and may be found as a piece of paper or a small ball used in secret voting.
  2. 4. Vote to select the winner of a position or a political office.
  3. 5. A politician who is running for office.
  4. 6. A government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is held by the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.