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