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Civics-Elections
Mr. T
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Histology
10th Grade
09/15/2011

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is the candidate’s or political party’s declaration of beliefs in areas such as crime, drug abuse, education.
Definition
Platform
Term
Is an election held before the general election in which candidates from the same party compete for the party nomination.
Definition
Primary Election
Term
Democrats run against Democrats and
Republicans run against Republicans. The Democrat winner
and the Republican winner face each other in the general election.
Definition
Primary Election
Term
What are the two types of primaries?
Definition
open primary and closed primary
Term
only registered party members may
take part in the election and vote for their party’s
candidate.
Definition
In a closed primary
Term
any
registered voter may vote for any
Candidate running in the election.
Definition
In an open primary
Term
Regularly scheduled statewide elections at which voters make the final selection for public office-holders
Definition
General Elections
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A repeat election between 2 front runners in a prior election when no candidate has received a majority of votes. usually held in places where the law requires a majority vote.
Definition
Run-off Election
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In a majority election one candidate must receive more than 50% of the vote usually in a two person race.
Candidate A: 50.1%
Candidate B: 49.9%
Definition
In a majority election
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the candidate that receives the highest
percentage of votes wins the election
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In a plurality election
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caucus is a meeting of members of a political party to
coordinate members' actions, choose group policy, or
nominate candidates for office.
Definition
a caucus
Term
The only nationwide election in the country is
the?
Definition
Presidential election.
Term
The number of electors in each state is equal to
Definition
the number of each state’s representatives in both houses of Congress.
Term
Each state has a number of electors equal to the number of its
Definition
U.S. senators plus the number of its U.S. representatives
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When a candidate wins the popular vote of a state on election day, that candidate wins the party electors for that state and those electors will vote in their respective state capitol for president.
Definition
How the Electoral College works
Term
What makes the Electoral College democratic
Definition
that it is based
on the popular vote of the state
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