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Open Primary:
What is soft money?
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What is soft money?
Decent money
Money that is not hard
Money made by cotton
money given to State and local party organizations
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Open Primary:
Just one person can vote
Democrats and Republicans
Any qualified voter can take part.
Any candidate
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Most of the money used in political campaigns comes from
The congress
The state
large donations by private givers
VA
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Since when Electronic vote counting has been use?
Since the 1700s
Since the 1850s
Since the 1960s
Since the 2000s
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In the United States, the electionprocess occurs in two steps:
Nomination and General election
Officeholder and Vote
Vote and Caucus
Nomination and General vote
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take a stand on certain issues in order tocriticize or support a certain candidate withoutmentioning that person’s name
Poll book
The news
Taxes
Issue ads
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Elections have come into use inrecent years:
Vote-by-mail
Vote going to government classes
Vote by going to the White House
Vote by speking
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The FECA Amendments of 1976 were passed in response to
Buckley v. Valeo.
The white house
Trump
Barack Obama
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At where does Petition often used:
at work and schools
Local level to nominate
at the local level to nominate for school posts and municipal offices.
at factories and at the local level
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The FECA Amendments of 1974 were passed in response to
The Watergate scandal
Replaced the former
The trump scandal
The Waterloo
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Ways to nominate a Candidate:
Self-announcement,Caucus,Direct primary and speak
Self-a announcement,Caucus,Direct primary and Petition
Caucus and Petition
Petition,Self-control,Caucus and Direct vote
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These are special-interest groups that have a major stake in public policy
DEI
FAFO
FECA
Political Action Committees (PACs)
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What is the first critical step in the election process?
direct primary
election
Nominating process
self-announcement
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What is Independent campaign spending?
Doesn't belong to state
that is filtered topresidential or congressional campaigns
take a stand on certain issues
a person unrelatedand unconnected to a candidate or party
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What is a Precinct?
to speak out your vote without fear of reprisal
Is voting district
is where the voters who live in a precinct go to vote
Is a feeling
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How much was given to campaigns in this way in 2000
$100 million
$450 million
$500 million
$550 million
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Why are detailed provisions of election laws important?
Maintain honest and free elections at all levels
Maintain control over fraud
Maintain information secret
Prevents fraud
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A grant of money, usually from the government
Subsidy
Poll taxes
Taxes
Succes
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How does the Ballot reforms cleaned up ballot fraud?
supplying standardized, accurate ballots and mandatingthat voting be secret
political machines began to take advantage
peak out your vote without fear of reprisal
Party-Column
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Is a trend that may be encountered in the near future.
Tiktok
Poll taxes
Online voting
Driver's license
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Elections are held on?
the first Monday in December
The first Tuesday after the first Monday in November
The first Wednesday after Halloween.
the second Thursday after the first Monday in March.
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Closed Primary:
Any qualified voter can take part.
Only declared party members can vote
Candidates are not identified by party labels
Only declared parties can judge
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Nonpartisan Primary:
Poll taxes
Only declared party members can vote
The ones who pays taxes
Candidates are not identified by party labels
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Runoff Primary:
If a required majorityis not met,the twopeople with the mostvotes run again
Only declared party members can vote.
Any qualified voter can take part.
Candidates are not identified by partylabels
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Blanket Primary:
Qualified voters can vote for any candidate,regardless of party
Nobody can vote
Candidates are not identified by party labels
Only declared party members can vote.
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What is a Polling place?
Is a voting district
Is where adults go to pay taxes
Is where you can go to speak
Is where the voters who live in a precinct go to vote
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Minor party and independent candidates areusually required__?
by congress to be presidents
by Mister Houston
by State law to be nominated by petition.
by Email
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When was Paper ballots began to used?
In May 3,2006
In the mid-1900s
In the mid-1800s
In 1998
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The Office-Group Ballot encourages:
Voter fraud
voter dissatisfaction
the Democratic Party
split-ticket voting
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The Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) of 1971 was passed to
To legislate
To end literacy test
replaced the former, ineffective legislation.
Replace the poll taxes
