Chapter 4

The United States use the ___ or secret ballot for all of is elections.

Australian Ballot

The Texas use of white-only primary by Democratic Party was declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court's ruling in ______

Baker v Carr

A ____ format is an open primary election that allows voters to participate in the nominations of candidates from multiple parties on the same day.

Blanket Primary

In 2006 governor's race, former State Comptroller ____ ran as a independent candidate

Carole K. Strayhorn

The ______ of 1964 required stats to accept a sixth grade education as meeting literacy and voter testing requirements

Civil Rights Act

The _____ refers to tendency for a candidate heading a party ticket to attract votes for the other candidates of his/her political party

Coattail Effect

A ______ is an election that heralds a new political alignment that produces a new political majority, or that indicates a long-term shift in electoral behavior

Critical Election

The term ____ refers to the technique used by both major political parties to enhance the chances of a victory for the candidates by crossing over to the other's primary election and voting for the weaker candidate

Crossover

In the 2010 governor's race, Debra Medina was a ____ that is a marginal candidate or non-candidate for public office that has little support and almost no chance to win the election

Dark Horse Candidates

In a ______ a new party wins, not because there has been a realignment in political party preferences but because the winning party just happened to have an attractive candidate or some other factor in its favor

Deciating Election

______ include one's judgments and opinions about political objects and events.

Evaluative Orientations

An closed primary format is a voting system also known as the crossover primary that permits voters to choose the party primary of their choice without declaring a political party affiliationFalse

False

In Buckley v Valero (2010), the United States Supreme Court ruled that a provision of the Bipartisan Campaign Act barring the airing of advertisements days before an election an unconstitutional violation of the 1st Amendment to the United States Constitution

False

In City of Rome vs Mitchell, the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Voting Right Act

False

In a partisan election, candidates do not run with a political party label

False

In a split ticket election, voters cast all of their choices for one political party by pushing only one button

False

In order to be declared the victor in a general election, a candidate must win with a majority vote of 50 percent plus one

False

In the open primary election format, the selection of a party's candidates in an election is limited to only avowed or declared party members

False

In the presidential primary elections, the Republican Primaries are all proportional while the Democrats favor the winner-take-all format.

False

Initiated in 1991, the early voting period for both primary and general elections s a 17- day period that ends on the ends on the eve of the primary or general election day

False

Knowledge, accurate or otherwise, of political objects and beliefs are collectively known as affective orientation

False

Sponsored by both Senators John McCain and Russell Feingold, the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act attempted to limit both soft-and hard money campaign donations.

False

The Far Right Movement was founded by Virginia Baptist minister Jerry Falwell in 1979

False

The Federal Elections Campaign Act of 1974 prohibits all political activities by federal employees as well as forbid any political committee from spending ore than $3 million in any campaign

False

The use of the poll tax was invalided with the passage of the 23rd Amendment to the United States Constitution.

False

Until 1985, Texans were prohibited under the Black Sunday Laws from purchasing any Labor-intensive items on Sundays

False

When O'Daniel retired from the U.S. Senate, both Coke Stevenson and Lyndon Johnson ran for his seat with Stevenson emerging as the victor.False

False

A _____ contribution is a direct donation to a candidate's campaign

Hard Money

The _____ mandates that ll States must providing voting systems with a manual audit capability as well as provide provisional ballots

Help America Vote Act

In The Social Contract _______ believes that once elected government officials are accountable to the people who elected them in the first place.

John Loke

In _____ the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the 26th Amendment lowering the voting age to eighteen

Oregon v Mitchell

In 1038, ______ a flour salesman successfully won his candidacy to the Texas governorship

Pappy O'Daniel

_____ is the maximum direct participation in political, economic and social decision making by interested, active and knowledgeable local groups

Participatory Democracy

________ is the pattern of individual attitude and orientations towards politics among members of a political system

Political Culture

_____ is the belief that one's political participation has an effect on t he course of political events.

Political Efficacy

Individuals acquire their political culture and their levels of participation in the political arena through a life-long process commonly known as the _____

Political Socialization Process

A _____ is an attempt to determine public opinion concerning issues or to forecast an election

Poll

The ______ is an interparty election held to determine a political party's representative for an election office position to be determined by the general election

Primary Election

A _____ is an election specifically scheduled to fill an office that has become vacant before the incumbent's term has expired

Special Election

The ______ mandates that political parties in Texas will use the direct primary format to select candidates for general elections.

Terrell Elections Law

In Texas, voting requirements include citizenship, age, and a residency requirement of _____ immediately preceding election day.

Thirty Days

A campaign is the competitive effort of rival candidates for public office to win support of the voters in the period preceding an election

True

A maintaining election occurs when the voting patterns present in the critical election remain stable with the majority party winning the election once again

True

An election is the process of selecting one person or more for an office, public or private, from a wider field of candidates

True

In a converting election the majority party wins, but there are some noticeable basic changes in the distribution of the party membership and philosophical preferences

True

In order to avoid a run-off primary election, an candidate must win his/her seat with a majority vote of a 50 percent plus one.

True

In presidential primary elections, the vote determines the number of delegates each contender will receive from their respective political parties in the state for the national convention nominating process.

True

Technically, absentee voting is a process enable qualified voters to cast their ballots in an election without going to the polls on election day.

True

The grandfather clause required all voters whose grandfathers could not vote before 1860 to pass a literacy test as a requirement for voting

True

The term "Yellow-Dog Democrat" refers to the general obligation to vote a straight ticket for the Democratic Party, even if a yellow dog was on the ballot.

True