Chapter 10 Voting & Elections Review

Going door-to-door to ask for votes or to take public opinion polls.

• Gerrymandering

• Soliciting

• Canvassing

• all of these

A survey taken at polling places of how people voted.

• Exit poll

• entrance poll

• Public poll

• none of these

Each part of a platform is called a ______.

• Spoke

• plank

• board

• all of these

A procedure by which voters can propose a law or a constitutional amendment.

• Proposition

   

• Referendum

• Initiative

• Ballot

Established the main rules for campaign finance today and created the Federal Election Commission.

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  National Voter Registration Act

• Federal Elections Commission

• Federal Election Campaign Act

• All of these

A race between candidates for elective office.

• Initiative

   

• Campaign

• Battle

• Referendum

If you vote for all the candidates in one political party, you are voting a _____ ticket.

 

• Split

• narrow

• conservative

• straight

A geographic area that contains a specific number of voters.

• County

• Parish

• Precinct

• Polling Place

Elections are a two-part process involving primary races and __________.

• Direct election

• Electoral election

• General election

• Open election

Citizens who cannot get to the polls on Elections Day can vote by?

• Butterfly ballot

• voter registration

• voting machine

• absentee ballot