Election Vocabulary

What is the definition of CONGRESS?

• a name for a President during the time from the election of a new president until the new president takes over
• a written request signed by people demanding something to be done.
• makes the laws for the United States
• another name for the President

What is the definition of LAME DUCK PRESIDENT?

• the President gets to sit back and do nothing
• the length of time a person serves in a political office
• the president of the ducks on the pond
• a name for a President during the time from the election of a new president until the new president takes over.

What is the definition of NOMINATE?

• to dominate
• to name someone to be a candidate in an election.
• make the laws for the United States
• to request something to be done

What is the definition of TERM?

• the length of time a person serves in a political office.
• 10 years
• a written request demanding something to be done.
• to name someone to be a candidate in an election.

What is the definition of PETITION?

• makes the laws for the United States
• a written request signed by people demanding something to be done.
• to name someone to be a candidate in an election
• the length of time a person serves in a political office.

What is a BALLOT?

• the place you go to vote
• a piece of paper that you use to choose your vote
• a poll
• an election

What does it mean to VOTE?

• to express your opinion
• to go to a poll
• an election
• makes the laws for the United States

What is a PRESIDENT?

• a person who makes all the rules for everybody
• the United States head of state
• a person who decides he wants to lead the country without being voted
• a citizen

What is a POLL?

• a piece of paper you use to vote on
• a place you go to cast your vote in an election
• the same thing as a pole
• the North Pole

What is a DEMOCRACY?

• someone chooses if they want to be leader or not
• a rule by the people