AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

Chapter 7, Section 1
The Nominating Process - Key

1. The standard we are covering is SSCG8.

2. Nomination is the process of candidate selection in an electoral.
3. A general election is the regularly scheduled election at which voters
make a final selection of officeholders.
4. Five ways nominations are made in the United States are:
a. Self-announcement
b. Caucus
c. Convention
d. Direct primary
e. Petition
5. Self-announcement is a person announces they are running for an
office.
6. A caucus is a group of like-minded people who meet to select the
candidates they will support in an upcoming election.
7. A direct primary is an election held within a party to pick that party’s
candidates for the general election.
8. Two types of direct primaries are:
a. Closed
b. Open
9. A closed primary is a party nominating election in which only declared
party members can vote.
10. An open primary is a primary in which any qualified voters can cast
ballots.
11. Nomination by petition means candidates are nominated by acquiring
signatures of a certain number of qualified voters in an election district.