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- 1. – voting district, polling division, or polling district, is a subdivision of an electoral district, typically a contiguous area within which all electors go to a single polling place to cast their ballots
- 5. Action Committee (PAC) – 527 organization that pools campaign contributions from members and donates those funds to campaigns for or against candidates, ballot initiatives, or legislation
- 6. – slip or sheet of paper, cardboard, or the like, on which a voter marks his or her vote
- 8. parties- political party that campaigns on only one issue
- 9. party – made up of individuals who organize to win elections, operate government, and influence public policy
- 12. parties- political party that plays a smaller (in some cases much smaller, even insignificant in comparison) role than a major party in a country's politics and elections
- 15. parties – a political party having electoral strength sufficient to permit it to win control of a government usually with comparative regularity and when defeated to constitute the principal opposition to the party in power
- 16. effect – down-ballot effect is the tendency for a popular political party leader to attract votes for other candidates of the same party in an election
- 20. – the territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of a German elector
- 21. society- one in which many different groups and political parties are allowed to exist
- 23. election a regular election of candidates for office, as opposed to a primary election
- 24. place – building where people go to vote in an election
- 25. protest parties- parties rooted in poor economic times, lacking clear strategy, dissatisfied with current condition
- 26. voting – voter in an election votes for candidates from different political parties when multiple offices are being decided by a single election, as opposed to straight-ticket voting, where a voter chooses candidates from the same political party for every office up for election
- 29. – political system in which multiple political parties across the political spectrum run for national elections, and all have the capacity to gain control of government offices, separately or in coalition
- 30. one in which the cabinet is appointed by the legislature without reference to political parties
- 31. – a division or district of a city or town, as for administrative or political purposes
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- 2. parties- Those based on a particular set of beliefs and having a comprehensive view of social, economic and political matters
- 3. district – electoral district represented by a single officeholder. It contrasts with a multi-member district, which is represented by multiple officeholders
- 4. parties – a small organization, typically a political party, that has broken away from a larger one
- 7. primary – An election in which voters choose candidates to run on a party's ticket in a subsequent election for public office
- 10. Parties Vocab
- 11. – meeting of supporters or members of a specific political party or movement
- 13. part of the process of selecting a candidate for either election to a public office, or the bestowing of an honor or award. A collection of nominees narrowed from the full list of candidates is a short list
- 14. – voting is an electoral system in which a candidate, or candidates, who poll more than any other counterpart
- 17. form of government in which political parties cooperate to form a government
- 18. primary – voters choose one candidate per office regardless of the candidate's party affiliation
- 19. primary – a second primary election held in some states to decide which of the two highest candidates for an office in the first primary will be awarded the party nomination
- 22. system – political party system in which two major political parties consistently dominate the political landscape
- 27. primary That means if you chose Democratic or Republican as your party on your Voter Registration Application, you may vote only for candidates from your own party and you may also vote in nonpartisan contests
- 28. primary – direct primary election in which voters need not meet a test of party membership