Chapter 5 Voting, Campaigns, and Elections

Question 1

Election Campaign

Answer 1

The activities of candidates and parties, trying to persuade citizens to vote for them, in the period of time before an election

Question 2

Suffrage

Answer 2

The legal right to vote in public elections

Question 3

Voter Registration

Answer 3

The process used in every democracy to identify and list residents who are eligible to vote

Question 4

Poll tax

Answer 4

A tax levied on citizens before they are permitted to vote, forbidden by the Twenty- Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1964

Question 5

Equal Protection Clause

Answer 5

The passage in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that guarantees all citizens the same rights as all other citizens

Question 6

Voter Turnout

Answer 6

The proportion of the eligible citizens who actually cast their ballots in an election

Question 7

Publicly Funded Campaign

Answer 7

A system in which the government pays for the candidates’ campaign expenses, either directly or through parties

Question 8

Privately Funded Campaign

Answer 8

A system in which candidates and parties must rely on private citizens to voluntarily donate money to their campaign chests

Question 9

Primary Election

Answer 9

An election held within a party to nominate candidates for the general election or choose delegates to presidential nominating convention; also known as primary and direct primary

Question 10

Open Primary

Answer 10

An election held within a party to nominate candidates for the general election, in which any registered voter may participate in any party’s primary

Question 11

Closed Primary

Answer 11

An election held within a party to nominate candidates for the general election, in which only voters who are registered members of that party may participate

Question 12

General Election

Answer 12

An election in which voters choose government officeholders