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| the act or an instance of appointing a person to office. |
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| an election in which all or most members of a given political body are up for election. |
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| a primary in which only members of a particular party may vote. |
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| an election in which voters do not need to be a member of a particular political party in order to vote for partisan candidates in the primary election. |
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| a system used for selecting political party candidates in a primary election in the USA. In a blanket primary voters may pick one candidate for each office without regard to party lines; for instance, a voter might select a Democratic candidate for governor and a Republican candidate for senator. |
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| a number of votes cast for a candidate in a contest of more than two candidates that is greater than the number cast for any other candidate but not more than half the total votes cast. |
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| a second primary between the two leading candidates of the first primary to provide nomination by majority rather than by plurality. |
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| an informal term commonly used for some of the delegates to the Democratic National Convention, the presidential nominating convention of the United States Democratic Party. |
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| a term used to describe the requirement or condition that a generally minimal amount of money or services-in-kind originate from the beneficiaries of financial amounts, usually for a purpose of charitable or public good. |
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| refers to the Tuesday in February or March of a presidential election year when the greatest number of states hold primary elections to select delegates to national conventions at which each party's presidential candidates are officially nominated. |
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| to concentrate costs or benefits of (a financial obligation or deal) in an early period. |
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| Federal Elections Commissions |
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| an independent regulatory agency that was founded in 1975 by the United States Congress to regulate the campaign finance legislation in the United States. |
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| refers to a situation in United States politics in which there are not enough delegates 'won' during the presidential primary and caucus elections for a single candidate to have a pre-existing majority, during the first official vote for a political party's presidential-candidate (which occurs during its nominating convention). |
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| consists of the popularly elected representatives (electors) who formally elect the President and Vice President of the United States. |
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| Winner-Takes-All System (Units Rule) |
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| where the winner of the primary or electoral college vote takes all of the state's convention or electoral college delegates. |
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| the power granted by an electorate. |
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