- The right to vote
Your answer:
caucus
franchise
plurality
open primary
- The fee, now illegal, that a person had to pay before voting - the 24th Amendment prohibits these in national elections
Your answer:
poll tax
vote tax
ballot
electoral tax
- An election in which all voters choose the winner for each office
Your answer:
landslide
open primary
closed primary
general election
- A meeting of political party members to nominate candidates and decide party strategy for an election
Your answer:
endorsement
caucus
canvass
franchise
- An official ballot mailed to an election official by a voter before an election because the voter is unable to vote on election day
Your answer:
absentee ballot
Australian ballot
franchise
electoral ballot
- The opening speech at a national nominating convention, which praises the party and criticizes the opposition
Your answer:
nominating speech
primary address
opening address
keynote speech
- During an off-year election, when there are races for Congress, governor, and state and local lawmakers, voter turn-out is lower than when there is also a race for President of the U.S.
Your answer:
preferential primary
off-year election
nominating convention
presidential election
- An election in which all party members may vote to choose the party's candidate
Your answer:
closed primary
direct primary
presidential primary
open primary
- A ballot that is printed, paid for, and distributed by state or local governments to qualified voters at polling places established by state law; a secret ballot
Your answer:
American ballot
Australian ballot
Austrian ballot
Argentinian ballot
- The provision in the laws of Southern states permitting a person to vote without taking the literacy test or paying a tax to vote, if he or one of his ancestors had been entitled to vote (directed against southern Black Americans and declared unconstitutional in 1915)
Your answer:
Black Clause
grandfather clause
nephew clause
Grandmother Klaus
- In an election, when a winning candidate receives the highest number of votes, he or she has received a __?__ of the votes; the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number (but less that half of the votes)
Your answer:
minority
plurality
multiplicity
majority
- Written or oral examination, now illegal, requiring citizens to prove their ability to read, write, and understand documents before being allowed to vote
Your answer:
voting test
polling test
reading test
literacy test
- A type of direct primary election in which citizens must declare their party affiliation and can vote only for their party's candidates.
Your answer:
presidential preference primary
closed primary
preferential primary
open primary
- Type of ballot that lists candidates together by the office they are seeking, and their party affiliation is listed beside their name
Your answer:
Australian ballot
party-column ballot
party-office ballot
office-group ballot
- During political parties' national nominating conventions, many ballots may be needed to decide on a presidential nominee, and in last-minute bargaining, these candidates sometimes have won nomination when the front runners became deadlocked
Your answer:
father-son candidate
hard chargers
vice presidents
dark horse candidate
- Type of ballot that lists the candidates from each political party in a single column, and the parties are identified by symbols at the top of each column
Your answer:
random polling ballot
party-column ballot
single column ballot
office-party ballot
- During national nominating conventions the names of these candidates (often, governors or senators from delegates' home states) may be placed into nomination as a courtesy to them
Your answer:
sunny times candidates
presidential candidates
favorite son/favorite daughter candidates
people's choice candidates
- When something is supported by members of two major political parties
Your answer:
nonpartisan
bipartisan
favored party
multipartisan
- A person who is present at a polling place to ensure an honest election
Your answer:
electioneer
lobbyist
dark horse candidate
poll watcher
- The public support given to a candidate, usually by a newspaper or radio or television station
Your answer:
endorsement
polling support
unequal opportunity
favored treatment
- The type of direct primary in which voters do not have to declare a party preference
Your answer:
general election
dark horse primary
open primary
indirect primary
- A political survey used to determine voters' opinions; can be used as a verb or as a noun
Your answer:
voters' choice
polling survey
canvass
grandfather clause
- A petition with the signatures of a required number of qualified voters who support putting a candidate's name on the ballot
Your answer:
primary vote
nominating petition
initiative petition
polling petition
- Naming a candidate to run for office
Your answer:
primary election
election
nomination
polling factor