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- Committee on Premanent Organization
- selects the permanent chairperson and other officials for the convention
- 1976-1800
- white land owning men
- 1800-1870
- all white men
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- a law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African-American suffrage
- Election Day
- the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November
- cross-pressured voter
- one who is caught between conflicting elemints in their life
- "bandwagon"
- urging voters to support a candidate because everyone else is
- "plain folks"
- identifying the candidate as "just one of the common people"
- FECA 1971
- limit spending of candidates, limite donations from people
- propaganda
- using ideas, information, rumors to influence opinion
- 1971-present
- citizens of all races & gender, 18+
- authoritarian gov't
- power through force
- one-party systems
- the party = the gov't, all ballot members from the party
- Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act
- targeted use of issue advocacy advertising and use of soft-money to nat'l political parties
- Credentials Committee
- approves delegations from each state
- straight-party ticket
- select candidates of their party only
- 24th amendment
- 1964, don't have to pay a poll tax to vote in nat'l elections
- Political Action Committees (PACs)
- organizations established by interest groups to collect money and provide financial support to favored candidates/party
- delegate
- a person appointed or elected to represent others
- campaign manager
- manages campaign of a candidate
- "transfer"
- associating a patriotic symbol with a candidate
- absentee voting
- voting without going to the polls on Election Day
- grandfather clause
- only voters whose grandfathers have voted before 1867 can vote without paying poll tax/taking literacy test
- 1920-1971
- citizens of all races and genders
- nat'l convention
- delegates select ticket for Nov. election
- poll taxes
- pay to vote and for previous years of voting
- 1870-1920
- men of all races
- 26th amendment
- 1971, changed voting age to 18 from 21
- Platfrom Committee
- writes the party's platform, spells out how the party intends to deal with these issues
- "card stacking"
- giving only one side of the facts to support a candidate's position
- Federal Election Commission
- a six-member bipartisan agency that enforces and administers campaign finance laws
- independents
- neither Republican or Democratic
- literacy test
- take test to prove eligible to vote
- 19th amendment
- 1920, women can vote
- 15th amendment
- 1870, other races can vote
- Rules Committee
- governs the way its convention is run (rules, order of business)