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Quiz Chapter 10

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Test review on voting and elections

 

Hard QUIZ 25 QUESTIONS
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1

When citizens petition have a law sent back to voters for their approval?

2

Proposition?

3

When citizens vote to remove a public official from office...

4

System in which the candidate who wins the popular vote for a state receives all of the state's electoral votes...

5

Initiative...

6

The nomination of candidates for office for a particular party is known as a...

7

National conventions are a part of which step of the presidential election?

8

Who chooses the slate of presidential electors for each state?

9

Which term refers to an election that is held when none of the candidates for a particular office wins a majority of the vote?

10

How many seats in the Senate are at stake in general elections every even-numbered year?

11

Which of the following was not a result of the Federal Election Campaign Finance Act?

12

When candidates or campaign workers travel through neighborhoods asking for votes or taking public opinion polls, they are...

13

Which of the following is NOT a legal use of soft money?

14

What is the purpose of campaigns?

15

Former House Speaker Tip O'Neill said that you can forget the other three parts of a campaign if you are without what?

16

An attempt to promote a particular person or idea...

17

Political organizations established by special interest groups designed to support political candidates by contributing money...

18

Politicians who have already been elected to office...

19

When a famous person supports or campaigns for a candidate...

20

Donations given to political parties and not designated for a particular candidate's election campaign...

21

Voting results...

22

Voting District...

23

The list of candidates you use to cast your vote...

24

Voting for all the candidates in one political party...

25

Paper in which opposing candidates are listed across from each other...