unit 3 vocab

is a group of persons who seek to control government through the winning of elections and holding public office

• political parties

• Democratic Party

• Republican Party

• two party system

is an election where the voters express a preference for their Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates to represent their party in the general election

• General elections

• Presidential Primaries

are regularly scheduled elections at which voters make the final selection of officeholders

• Presidential Primaries

• General Elections

refers to the funds given to party organizations for ‘party-building activities’, such as the recruitment of candidates, voter registration drives, and other efforts utilized to build party membership.

• Hard Money

• PAC

• Soft Money

• Super PAC

refers to the money raised and spent to elect Congressional and Presidential candidates

• Hard Money

• PAC

• Soft Money

• Super PAC

are organizations that pools campaign contributions from members and then donates those pooled funds to campaign for or against a candidate

• Soft Money

• PAC

• Super PAC

• Hard Money

taxpayers must approve exactly how the funds will be used.

• SPLOST

• Sales tax

• Ad Valorem

are charged on all tangible consumer items

• SPLOST

• Sales Tax

• Ad Valorem

is the process that enables citizens to bypass their state legislature by placing proposed statutes and, in some states, constitutional amendments on the ballot

• Referendum

• Initiative

• Recall

is a procedure that allows citizens to remove and replace a public official before the end of their term of office.

• Referendum

• Recall

• Initiative