Vote (7117 bytes)
1: :''For the Finno-Ugric people, see [[Votes]].''
3: ...ers at the voting booths in 1945.jpeg|thumb|250px|Voters at the voting booths in the [[US]] in 1945]]
8: ... A [[secret ballot]], the standard way to protect voters' [[political privacy]], generally takes place a...
10: ... and approved by elites, there is no competition, voter qualifications are restrictive, and voting is of...
15: ==Standard vote types==

One vote one value (807 bytes)
1: ...stern Australia, all follows the principle of one vote one value.
3: In Queensland, the one vote one value is now followed, with the exception tha...

Get out the vote (3676 bytes)
1: ... activity, both aimed at increasing the number of votes cast in one or more elections.
4: ... the belief that failure of any eligible voter to vote in any election entails a loss to society.
7: ...ctivities" or "the previously planned get-out-the-vote portion of our campaign".)
9: ...rate part of the campaign, "voter IDs." Gathering voter IDs is the main focus of [[canvassing]].
11: ...rease the number of eligible voters who ''fail to vote'', because their tendency to believe "politics is...

Rock the Vote (249 bytes)
1: ...ization which encourages young [[American]]s to [[vote]]. They are affiliated with [[MTV]].
3: *[http://www.rockthevote.org/ Rock the Vote]

Swing vote (2315 bytes)
1: ... a number of candidates in an election. '''Swing votes''' are usually sought after in elections, since ...
3: ==Who is a swing voter?==
4: ...d them, although they must also be concerned with voter turnout among their political base.
6: ==The impact of swing voters==
7: ...ak major-party candidates created many more swing voters than usual. The result was a third-party candi...

Protest vote (934 bytes)
1: A '''Protest vote''' is a vote cast in an [[election]] to demonstrate the caster...
8: ... refusing to turn out to vote at all as a protest vote, especially in places, like [[Australia]], which ...

Supplementary Vote (6729 bytes)
1: ...liminated and the second preferences of those who voted for eliminated candidates are redistributed to h...
3: ...out the need for a second poll. The Supplementary Vote is used to elect several mayors in [[England]], i...
7: Each voter ranks at least one and no more than two candidat...
12: ==Counting the votes==
16: ...lso been eliminated). The candidate with the most votes is then declared elected.

Split vote (1823 bytes)
3: ...e that represents the viewpoints of a minority of voters winning.
5: ...e the one in [[Australia]] also tend to eliminate vote splitting as an issue.
7: ... being a [[spoiler effect|spoiler]] (although the votes that went to the eighth-place candidate in the c...
9: Vote-splitting is a special case of [[strategic nomina...

Electoral-vote.com (1891 bytes)
1: ...v_1_2004).png|thumb|450px|Screenshot of Electoral-vote.com]]
3: ...t of the United States]], rather than raw popular votes, the site attracted significant attention, and a...
7: .... In the actual election, Bush won 286 electoral votes to Kerry's 251.
10: * [http://electoral-vote.com/ electoral-vote.com]

Vote allocation (560 bytes)
1: ... is running two candidates, males may be asked to vote for one candidate and females for another to insu...

Get Off The Internet And Vote (2056 bytes)
1: ...inner.gif|right|frame|'''Get Off The Internet And Vote: Contest Winner''']]
2: ...e 2004 election. The contest encouraged people to vote on [[Election Day (United States)|election day]] ...
20: ...turnout]] for the [[2004]] election rose from the voter turnout of the previous election in [[2000]]. Ac...
23: ...ftheinternetandvote.com/ Get Off The Internet And Vote]

Don't Just Vote, Get Active (1303 bytes)
1: '''Don't Just Vote, Get Active (DJV)''' is an [[open]], [[decentrali...
3: According to one of the 20,000 "voter's guides" distributed by those involved with DJV...
13: * http://www.dontjustvote.com/

Vote banking (832 bytes)
3: ...]]s in Florida, in an attempt to ease the rush of voters on the actual date of the election. The phrase ...
5: ...ee minorities and special interest groups as mere votes that will sway the tide of an election.

Conscience vote (1713 bytes)
1: ...ive body]] where legislators are each expected to vote according to their own personal conscience rather...
3: ...ng against one's party is more common, conscience votes are generally less important.
5: ... [[prostitution]] are often subject to conscience votes.

Casting vote (1588 bytes)
1: ...e a deadlock. Examples of people who hold casting votes are the [[Speaker of the British House of Common...
3: ... Vice President of the United States, who usually votes according to his party affiliation or according ...
5: ...ish House of Commons is required by convention to vote for the status quo rather than for change. This e...
7: ...se of Commons. Today, however, the Speaker simply votes as an ordinary member, and since an outright maj...

Vote swapping (1890 bytes)
2: ...ict voting tactically for the candidate the first voter prefers, because that candidate has a greater po...
6: ...for the Labour candidate in exchange for a Labour voter from the second district voting for the Liberal ...
8: ...000 presidential election have banded together as VotePair.org, in the links below.
17: *http://votepair.org
18: *http://www.tacticalvoter.net

Iron vote (475 bytes)
1: ...m for a voter that can be reliabily counted on to vote for one party or another. These usually include ...
3: ...g]] was severely hurt in 2000 by the loss of iron votes.
5: ...yellow dog Democrat]]. The opposite is a [[swing voter]].

Voice vote (556 bytes)
1: ...r "present" (abstain). No names or numbers on who voted for what are recorded.
3: Alternative formulations for the vote, depending on the custom of the body, include "ay...
7: * [[division (vote)|division]]
8: * [[recorded vote]]
12: ...http://www.senate.gov/reference/common/faq/how_to_votes.htm Senate]

Division (vote) (8684 bytes)
1: ...recorded, as opposed to a [[voice vote]], wherein votes are unrecorded.
8: ...r may either declare that his ruling on the voice vote stands, or proceed to a division.
10: ...generally indicates that only one person seeks to vote on that side. Basically, the requirement that tel...
12: ... to appoint tellers, then the other side wins the vote and the division is not held.
16: ...eral rule therefore is, that those who give their votes for the preservation of the orders of the House,...

Youth vote (1520 bytes)
1: ... an unprecedented call for the so-called '''Youth Vote'''. This ambiguous term is used to define the onl...
3: ...ople in the United States were first mobilized to vote in [[bloc]]s by the [[youth activism]] movement. ...
5: ...nn Arbor each worked to encourage young people to vote together and for common issues.

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