Preparing to Vote Packet 17

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Preparing to Vote(Packet 17)

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General voting words

• Ballot the paper you vote on.
• Candidate someone running for office.
• Issues important ideas or concerns.
• Endorsement when someone says theyre
  supporting / backing a certain candidate.
• Proposals another name for issues.

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Ways to find out about candidates and/or issues

• Newspapers especially the editorials
• Magazines Time, Newsweek, etc
• Television even those Sunday morning shows - or
  the political channels
• Radio Talk radio
• Debates TV / radio for big debates
• Pamphlets often sent to your house

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Political Parties

• Major
• Democrats
• Republicans

• Others
• (Minority Parties)
• http//www.politics1.com/parties.htm
• Some others are
• Non-Partisan (no party)

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Primary and General Elections

• An election to nominate (name) candidates to run
  for office.
• For example there may be 5 different Democrats
  wanting to run for office, so in a primary,
  theyll vote to see which one of the 5 will be
  the one to run.

• The election that decides who will be the one who
  actually wins and takes office.

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Closed / Open Primaries

• You must be registered as a member of a political
  party to vote.
• Democrats could only vote for primary Democrats.
• Would keep the other side from voting for someone
  who wouldnt beat their candidate.

• Every registered voter can vote no matter which
  political party they belong to.

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Split tickets

• Voting for people in more than one political
  party (splitting your vote a couple of ways).
• Example voting for a Republican President and a
  Democratic Governor

• In some primaries, you cannot vote a split ticket.

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Absentee Ballots

• If for some reason you know ahead of time you
  wont be able to vote, you can get an absentee
  ballot.
• Like soldiers in another country, people out of
  their home state for vacation or business, or
  elderly people whod have a hard time getting out
  to vote.

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