POD Chapter 7 Elections

Process of selecting candidates for office

• Nomination

• General Election

• Caucus

• Direct Primary

The most widely used method of making nominations in the US an intra-party nominating election where electors can choose candidates who will run in the General Election

• Nomination

• General Election

• Caucus

• Direct Primary

A meeting of a group of like-minded persons to select the candidate they will support in an election

• Nomination

• General Election

• Caucus

• Direct Primary

Regularly scheduled elections where voters choose public officeholders

• Nomination

• General Election

• Caucus

• Direct Primary

A second primary involving the two front runners in the first contest, held where the election law requires a majority vote for the nomination

• Closed Primary

• Open Primary

• Blanket Primary

• Runoff Primary

• Coattail Effect

A form of direct primary in which any qualified voter can participate without regard to their party

• Closed Primary

• Open Primary

• Blanket Primary

• Runoff Primary

• Coattail Effect

A nominating election where voters may switch from one party to another on an office-to-office basis

• Closed Primary

• Open Primary

• Blanket Primary

• Runoff Primary

• Coattail Effect

A form of direct primary in which only declared party members may vote

• Closed Primary

• Open Primary

• Blanket Primary

• Runoff Primary

• Coattail Effect

Influence that a popular candidate for a top office can have on voters' support of other candidates of the party on the same ballot

• Closed Primary

• Open Primary

• Blanket Primary

• Runoff Primary

• Coattail Effect

A place in a precinct to register a vote

• Precinct

• Polling Place

• Ballot

• Australian Ballot