Chapter 21 We The People 7Th Edition

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a primary election
voters nomination candidates only of the party they're enrolled
for a period of time B4 primary day

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closed primary

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The county party official, who heads the county executive committee

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county chair

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a meeting held by a political party
followed by its precinct conventions,
for the purpose of electing delegates to its state convention

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county convention

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the party group
has party's county chair
has precinct chairs
responsible for running
county's primary elections planning county conventions

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county executive committee

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the requirement that a voter register long before the general election, in effect in Texas until 1971

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early registration

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a procedure
allows voters to cast ballots during 2 week period B4 regularly scheduled election date.

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early voting

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a decisive election that determines who is elected to office

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general election

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a national act
passed in 1993
requires states to allow people to register to vote
when getting driver's license.

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motor voter law

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primary election
voter can wait til day of primary to choose party to enroll in
to select candidates for the general election

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open primary

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state imposed tax on voters
prerequisite for registration
Poll Taxes were made unconstitutional in national elections - 24th Amendment
in state elections by the Supreme Court in 1966

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poll tax

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a local voting district

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precinct

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local party official
elected in the party's primary election
heads the precinct convention serves on the party's county executive committee

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precinct chair

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meeting held by a political party
to select delegates for the county convention
to submit resolutions to the party's state platform
precinct conventions are held on the day of the party's primary election
open to anyone who voted in that election

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precinct convention

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a voting pattern in which conservatives vote Democratatic for state offices, but Republican for presidential candidates.

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presidential Republicanism

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elections held to select a party's candidate for the general election

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primary elections

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where no candidate recieved the majority, a second primary election is held between the two candidates who received the most votes in the first primary election

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runoff primary

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a movement
led by the Texas governor Allan Shivers
during the 1950's
which conservative Texas Democrats supported Republican candidates for office
many believed national Democratic Party became too liberal

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Shivercrat movement

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election not held on regularly scheduled basis
in Texas
a special election called to fill a vacancy in office
to give approval for the state government to borrow money,
to ratify amendments to the Texas Constitution

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special election

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the top two state-level leaders in the party

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state chair and vice chair

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party meeting 2 every years purpose of nominating candidates for statewide office adopting a platform
electing the party's leadership, in presidential election years selecting delegates for the national convention
& choosing presidential electors

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state convention

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the committee responsible for governing a party's activities throughout the state.

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state executive committee

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primary election in which only white voters are eligible to participate

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white primary