Election Day Vocabulary

A form of government in which citizens choose their leaders by voting

• democracy

• republic

• autocracy

• communism

When people lack interest or concern and usually don't vote in an election

• delegate

• suffrage

• apathy

• nonpartisan

When you vote through the mail, because you are out of your district or military stationed overseas.

• delegate

• quorum

• caucus

• absentee ballot

Which word IS NOT associated with you having the right to vote?

• enfranchisement

• suffrage

• electorate

• constituent

• all of them mean you are a voter

An election that falls in between presidential elections

• landslide

• midterm

• minority

• bipartisan

the place where you vote

• precinct

• platform

• convention

• govenor

the mechanism that actually elects our presidents

• electoral college

• majority party

• polling place

• political action committee

this can keep you from voting

• being a felon

• not registering or living in the district

• being under 18

• all of the above

a candidate that already holds the office being ran for

• electorate

• nominee

• incumbent

• pollster

this is when a congressional district is drawn in a way that is meant to disenfranchinse its voters because it predetermines whether it is a Democratic or Republican district

• appropriation

• baiting

• cloture

• gerrymandering