Election vocabulary

What is an absentee vote?

• a shortened ballot for easy voting

• an automatic vote for a political party

• the vote cast by citizens who cannot go to their polling place on Election day and vote by mail

• the vote cast by citizens who are absent and they have someone else take their place to vote at the polling place

a series of actions intended to accomplish a goal

• party

• Electoral College

• campaign

• incumbent

an area that is represented by a member of a legislative branch of government or other governing body

• district

• ballot

• platform

• Congress

the current officeholder

• liberal

• candidate

• party

• incumbent

an organized political group

• party

• liberal

• conservative

• incumbent

a person running for political office

• party

• incumbent

• candidate

• Congress

the legislature of the United States government

• the President

• Congress

• The Supreme Court

• the Declaration of Independence

holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation; this group is often referred to as "the right" and is Republican

• Liberal

• Conservative

• party

• partisan

the legislature of the United States government

open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values; this group is often referred to "the left" and Democratic

• Conservative

• President

• partisan

• Liberal

a vote to select the winner of a position or political office

• absentee ballot

• primaries

• election

• caucus