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Here you'll find a list of the most commonly used technical terms on Ballotpedia.
Signatures and signing
Restrictions on signature collection
- Circulation period
- Distribution requirement
- History of restrictions on paid circulators
- Laws governing petition circulators
- Residency requirements for petition circulators
Limits imposed on citizen initiatives
Forms of direct democracy
- Bond issue
- Citizen referendum
- Constitutional amendment
- Election
- Indirect initiative amendment
- Indirect initiative statute
- Initiated constitutional amendment
- Initiated state statute
- Legislative referral
- Legislatively-referred constitutional amendment
- Legislatively-referred state statute
- Statute
- Statute referendum
- Veto referendum
Elections
- 501(c)(3)
- 501(c)(4)
- Absentee ballot
- Absentee ballot vote fraud
- ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now)
- Ballot
- Ballot box stuffing
- Bradley effect
- Canvassing
- Caucus
- Citizen
- Citizen Services Inc. (CSI)
- Closed primary
- Constituency
- Constitution
- Constitutional amendment
- Delegates
- Democracy
- Direct democracy
- Early voting
- Election
- Election assistance commission (EAC)
- Election day registration
- Electorate
- Electronic voting fraud
- Eligible voter
- Exit polling
- Felon vote fraud
- Help American Vote Act (HAVA)
- Jim Crow laws
- Independent expenditure
- Open primary
- Phone jamming
- Platform
- Plurality
- Political action committee
- Poll tax
- Polling location
- Precinct
- Presidential primary
- Primary election
- Proportional representation
- Project Vote (Voting for America, Inc.)
- Protest vote
- Push polling
- Overvote
- Registered voter
- Runoff primary
- Same day registration
- Shy Elephant Factor
- Shy Tory Factor
- Straight party voting
- Straight-ticket voting
- Third-party voter registration
- Undervote
- Voter caging and purging
- Voter impersonation
- Voter registration
- Voter registration drive
- Voting
- Voting booth
- Voting machines
- Wilder effect
