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Here you'll find a list of the most commonly used technical terms on Ballotpedia.

Signatures and signing

• Circulator
• Elector
• Eligible voter
• Forged signature
• Fraudulent signature
• Invalid signatures
• Out-of-state circulator
• Paid circulator
• Petition drive
• Petition drive management
• Registered voter
• Signature certification
• Signature challenge
• Signer
• Valid signature
• Volunteer circulator

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

• Ballot title
• Legislative tampering
• Single-subject rule

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 America 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

Ballotpedia words

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