Question | Answer |
Polling Place | The location where voting is carried out. |
Precinct | A ruling that is used as the basis for a judicial decision in a later, similar case. |
Ballot | The list of candidates on which you cast your vote. |
Absentee Ballot | One that allows a person to vote without going to the polls on Election Day. |
Returns | Ballots and results of an election. |
Exit Poll | A survey taken a polling places of how people voted. |
Electorate | All the people who are eligible to vote. |
Apathy | A lack of interest. |
Ultimate | The most basic or final. |
Devote | To dedicate oneself to. |
Electoral College | A group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president. |
Initiative | A procedure by which citizens can propose new laws or state constitutional amendments. |
Proposition | A petition asking for a new law. |
Referendum | A way for citizens to vote on state or local laws. |
Recall | A special election in which citizens can vote to remove a public official from office; situation in which a company pulls a product off the market or agrees to change it to make it safe. |
Elector | Person appointed to vote in presidential elections for the major candidates. |
Winner-Take-All System | A system in which the candidate who wins the popular vote in a state usually receives all of the state's electoral votes. |
Issue | A matter of debate or dispute to distribute or send out. |
Odd | Not divisible by two. |
Propaganda | Certain ideas that many involve misleading messages designed to manipulate people. |
Political Action Committee (PAC) | Political organization established by a corporation, labor union, or other special-interest group designed to support candidates by contributing money. |
Soft Money | Donations given to political parties and not designated for a particular candidate's election campaign. |
Incumbent | A politician who has already been elected to office. |
Imagine | Believe (something unreal or untrue) to exist or be so: "ill health, real or imagined". |
Fee | A Charge. |