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15 Cards in this Set
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suffrage
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right to vote
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franchise
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right to vote
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Electorate
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potential voting population
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Transients
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persons living in a state for only a short time, without legal residence
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Voter Registration
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procedure of voter identification intended to prevent fraudulent voting; list of who are qualified to vote in an election
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purging
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to remove the names who are no longer eligible to vote; every 2-4 years but usually ignored
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poll books
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list of all registered voters in each precinct
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off-year elections
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congressional election that occurs between presidential election years
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political efficacy
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one’s own influence or effectiveness on politics
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political socialization
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process by which people gain their political attitudes and opinions
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Gender gap
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measurable differences between the partisan choices of men and women today
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Party Identification
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loyalty of people to a political party
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straight-ticket voting
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practice of voting for candidates of only one party in an election
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split-ticket voting
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voting for candidates of different parties for different offices at the same election
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independents
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term used to describe people who have no party affiliation
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