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| Fancy word for the right to vote |
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| A group of ideas that represents what the party believes or supports |
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| A single idea held by a political party |
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| The amendment which granted women in America the right to vote (their suffrage) |
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| The amendment which prohibits the discrimination of voting rights on the basis of a person's race |
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The amendment which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 (passed during the Vietnam War)
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| The amendment which outlawed poll taxes |
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| The practice of charging a person a fee to vote...used in the past to keep African American citizens from voting |
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The practice of requiring a potential voter to prove that he/she can read and write "proficiently" before allowing the person to register to vote |
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| A period prior to the official election day during which voters can come to the Board of Elections and cast their ballot (The period is current two weeks but will change to one week in 2016) |
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| A piece of photo identification a voter will need as of the 2016 elections in order to vote (controversy over whether this might keep certain voters from participating) |
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| The type of political party system used by the United States and Canada |
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| The type of political party system used by China and Cuba where the Communist Party is the only party |
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| An election in which a party is selecting their nominee to advance to the general election |
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| An election in which one candidate from each party runs against one candidate from the other party to see who will be come the office winner |
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| The area in your county in which you live and where all of the people who will vote at the same location live as well - think Forest City # 1 and # 2, Ellenboro, Bostic-Sunshine, etc. |
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| The place where you go on election day to cast your ballot - think First Baptist Church, First Methodist Church, Ellenboro Fire Department, Cedar Grove United Methodist Church, etc. |
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| The winner of the Republican Presidential nomination in 2012 |
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| The winner of the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2012 |
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| Methods used to sway voters to cast their ballots in a certain way |
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| The use of a famous or respected person to support a candidate |
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| The practice of trying to convince voters that you should choose a certain candidate because "everybody else is doing it" |
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| The use of negative or slanted language to discourage people from voting for a candidate |
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| Using vague words or phrases that sound great but have little concrete meaning to persuade people to vote for a candidate |
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| The practice of trying to convince the voters that the candidate is just a regular person, "just like you and me" |
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CARD STACKING (FEAR)
aka EITHER-OR THINKING |
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| The type of propaganda that makes voters think the most awful things will happen if they don't elect a particular candidate to office |
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| One of the main reasons people don't vote - they just do not care who is elected and possibly feel that their vote will not make a difference |
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| In order to vote in a North Carolina county, a person needs to live in that county for 30 days prior to the election |
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