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Precincts and Polling Places

The coattail effect is the tendency for a popular political party leader to attract votes for other candidates of the same party in an election.

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Precincts and Polling Places

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  1. The coattail effect is the tendency for a popular political party leader to attract votes for other candidates of the same party in an election. The reverse coattail effect is the opposite: the tendency for an unpopular political party leader to take away votes for other candidates of the same party in an election.

  2. Precincts A precinctis a voting district. Polling Places A polling place is where the voters who live in a precinct go to vote. It is located in or near each precinct. Precincts and Polling Places

  3. Casting the Ballot We use the Australian Ballot: Provided at public expense Lists candidates Given out only at polls, one per voter Can be marked in secret Sample Ballots are often provided Bedsheet Ballots are often used, despite the risk of ballot fatigue Office-Group Ballots are used by most; a few use Party-Column ones

  4. Office-Groupand Party-Column Ballots

  5. Campaign Spending

  6. Sources of Funding Private and Public Sources of Campaign Money Nonparty groups such as PACs Small contributors Temporary fund-raising organizations Wealthy supporters Candidates Government subsidies

  7. The Federal Election Commission (FEC) enforces: • the timely disclosure of campaign finance information • limits on campaign contributions • limits on campaign expenditures • provisions for public funding of presidential campaigns

  8. Regulating Campaign Financing • 1907 – No Corp or Nat’l Bank can fund campaigns • 1970s: Buckley v. Valeo states that the limits on spending only apply to candidates who accept campaign money from the government, not those who raise money independently.

  9. Citizens United v. FEC (2010) Gov. ban on political spending by corp. or labor unions violates 1stAmendment right to free speech. Corporations or Labor Unions can donate, but those donations are subject to FEC limits

  10. Loopholes in the Law • Soft money—money given to State and local party organizations for “party-building activities” that is filtered to presidential or congressional campaigns • Independent campaign spending—a person unrelated and unconnected to a candidate or party can spend as much money as they want to benefit or work against candidates. • Issue ads—take a stand on certain issues in order to criticize or support a certain candidate without actually mentioning that person’s name.

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