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voter fraud - ✔✔Illegal interference with the process of an election. Often involves
tactics like illegal registration, harassment or tampering with voting machines.
voter intimidation - ✔✔(also voter suppression) an attempt by an official, individual,
or group to prevent eligible people from voting or forcing them to vote in a certain way.
Some voter intimidation tactics include verbal and/or physical threats, threatening with
weapons or jail time, tests involving literacy, property ownership, or citizenship, poll
taxes.
voter guide - ✔✔information about candidates and issues in an upcoming election.
Guides can be published by political parties, organizations, or other groups and may be
non-partisan or may favor a particular party or point of view.
ballot box stuffing - ✔✔Vote fraud; originally, the illegal insertion of paper votes into
the ballot box, with or without the connivance of local election officials.
Canvassing - ✔✔when candidates or campaign workers contact potential voters
directly, in person or by telephone or email, asking for votes or taking public opinion
polls
closed primary - ✔✔A primary in which only registered members of a particular
political party can vote
exit polling - ✔✔Features interviews with voters on election day in a representative
sample of districts
,majority voting system - ✔✔Candidate must receive the majority of votes (any
amount over 50%) to win
open primary - ✔✔Primary election in which any voter, regardless of party, may vote.
runoff primary - ✔✔A second primary election held when no candidate wins a
majority of the votes in the first primary
Gerrymandering - ✔✔the drawing of legislative district boundaries to benefit a party,
group, or incumbent
repeal - ✔✔to cancel an act or law
partisan - ✔✔a strong supporter of a party, cause, or person
non-partisan - ✔✔An idea or person that does not support a specific party, cause, or
candidate.
details - ✔✔Pieces of information that support or tell more about the main idea.
examples - ✔✔A pattern or model, as of something to be imitated or avoided; a part
of something to show or represent the whole.
chronological - ✔✔Arranged in order of time of occurrence.
cause & effect - ✔✔The reason something happens and the result of it happening.
,point of view - ✔✔The perspective from which a story is told.
bias - ✔✔A particular preference or point of view that is personal, rather than
scientific.
propaganda - ✔✔A negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than
present information.
facts - ✔✔Something that actually exists; reality; truth, a true statement.
opinions - ✔✔Beliefs based on personal judgments and/or experiences, rather than
on indisputable facts.
judgments - ✔✔Opinions or conclusions about something.
circle graph - ✔✔A graph of data where the entire circle represents the whole or
100%.
line graph - ✔✔A graph that uses points connected by lines to show how something
changes in value.
bar graph - ✔✔A type of graph in which the lengths of bars are used to represent and
compare data in categories.
map - ✔✔A two-dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth's surface or a portion of
it.
, pie chart - ✔✔A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the
percentages of the whole.
legend - ✔✔A list that identifies patterns, symbols, or colors used in a chart.
compass rose - ✔✔A tool on a map showing cardinal (N,E,S,W) and intermediate
(NE,SE,NW,SW) directions.
scale - ✔✔A system of ordered marks at fixed intervals used as a reference standard
in measurement.
measures of central tendency - ✔✔Mean, Median, Mode
comparisons - ✔✔Illuminate a point by showing similarities.
trends - ✔✔Developments that mark changes in a particular area.
Native Americans - ✔✔1st migrants from Asia to the Americas.
indigenous people - ✔✔native people
explorers - ✔✔A person examining a region that is unknown to them.
colonies - ✔✔A group of people who leave their native country to form in a new land
a settlement subject to, or connected with, the parent nation.