Across
- 2. An indication of approval or disapproval of a proposal, motion, or candidate for office.
- 3. Compilation of election returns and validation of the outcome that forms the basis of the official results.
- 5. Person contending in a contest for office
- 6. in politics, is the current officeholder of a political office.
- 9. An act or process of electing; the right, power, or privilege of making a choice.
- 11. Elections that focus on electing officials at the local level – towns and cities.
- 13. Election held to determine which candidate will represent a political party for a given office in the general election.
- 14. The right of voting and the exercise of such right.
- 15. The official presentation of all of the contests to be decided in a particular election.
- 16. A law enacted by the legislative branch of a government.
Down
- 1. A process of verifying election results by counting the initial results a second time.
- 4. Process whereby a state law or constitutional amendment may be referred to the voters before it goes into effect.
- 7. College that consists of the electors appointed by each state who formally elect the President and Vice President of the United States.
- 8. worker an official responsible for the proper and orderly voting in local precincts
- 10. voting conducted before election day where the voter completes the ballot in person at a county office or other designated polling place or ballot drop site prior to election day.
- 12. Ballot cast by a voter unable to vote in person at his or her polling place on Election Day.