Let's Go Voting Everyone Gets To Vote Public Opinion Vocabulary Miscellaneous
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Ballot
The device by which a voter registers a choice in an election.
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Citizenship, residence, & age
Every state requires that a person must qualify to vote based on these three factors.
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Public Opinion Polls
Devices that attempt to collect information by asking people questions.
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Suffrage
The right to vote.
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Tuesday
National Election Day is the first _____ after the first Monday in November in even-numbered years.
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Absentee Voting
People can vote without going to polling places; people apply for ballot; return it by mail.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
It outlawed discrimination in public places.
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Straw Votes
Unscientific polls that ask the same question of a large number of people. It emphasizes quantity, not quality.
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Registration
A procedure of voter identification intended to prevent fraudulent voting.
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Party Affiliation
A person’s choice of which party to belong to based on many reasons such as race, religion, family, and major events.
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Australian Ballot
Printed @ pub. expense, names of all candidates, given only at polls to voters, marked secretly.
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24th Amendment
It banned the poll tax.
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The Mass Media
Those means of communication that can reach large, widely dispersed audiences simultaneously.
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Partisanship
The strong support of officeholders’ party and its policy stands.
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Voting Machine
Over half the votes cast in national elections are done on these, not by paper ballots or punch-cards anymore.
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Office-Group Ballot
It groups the names of candidates under the title of the office. It favors split-ticket voting.
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
It eliminated the literacy test.
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Medium
A means of communication. It transmits some kind of information. Media is the plural of it.
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Electorate
The potential voting population
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Measuring Public Opinion
It is done through elections, interest groups, the media, and personal contacts with the public.
Party-Column Ballot
It lists each party’s candidates in a column under the party’s name. It favors straight-ticket voting.
Grass Roots
Of or from the people, the average voters
Scientific Polling
Defines universe, prepares questions, controls how poll taken, analyze/report finding to public.
Propaganda
A technique of persuasion aimed at influencing individual or group behaviors. Its goal is to create a particular belief.
Precinct
A voting district






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