Topic 11 (chapter 7) Vocab. Quiz

Provisions made for those unable to get to their regular polling places on Election Day.

• Online voting
• Absentee voting

The device voters use to register a choice in an election.

• Ballot

• Flux Capacitor

voting process in which voters receive a long ballot containing the names of all contenders, regardless of party, and can vote however they choose.

• Voting
• Closed primary
• Blanket primary

The effect of a strong candidate running for an office at the top of a ballot helping to attract voters to other candidate’s on the party’s ticket.

• Wingman effect
• coattail effect
• cheater effect

The regularly scheduled election at which voters made a final selection of officeholders.

• Election
• Nonpartisan election
• General election

A primary in which the top two vote-getters in the first direct primary face one another.

• Caucus
• Nomination
• Runoff primary

Elections in which candidates are not identified by party labels.

• Nonpartisan election
• Partisan election

a group of like-minded people who meet to select the candidates they will support in an upcoming election.

• Absentee effect
• Caucus
• ballot

Money given to State and local party organizations for voting-related activities.

• Soft money
• Subsidy
• Hard money

The election held within a party to pick that party’s candidates for the general election.

• Nominee
• Direct primary