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Vocabulary: elections

Voting is a right, and it was often acquired in very difficult ways for some citizens (women, members of the minorities etc.) Voting is also a duty for every citizen, and in some countries, people are fined (given a fine or a penalty) if they don't vote when they should.

A lot of vocabulary is linked to this field and it's better to know a minimum words and expressions to be able to follow the news. 

1. An important EVENT: a coming ELECTION.

Elections: the power in everybody's hands	Incentive badge to vote	Announcing elections

Campaining for one, or for the other? 

A poster	A flyer/flier	An electoral meeting	An electoral coach to go on a tour

2. "CANVASSING": "going door to door..." 

These people are doing «canvassing», which means they're doing door to door, handing out documents (flyers, explaining the election manifesto or platform) trying to talk the voters (undecided or not) into voting for their candidate. This process was forbidden in Japan in 1925.

Disabled people are listed and driven to the polling station on election day. 

 3. Election Day: D day! 

Lining up at a polling station	A temporary polling station	Polling station in a launderette	... or in a library
Secret votes!	Votes are secret	Ballot booths	More ballot booths
A poll card	A vote mark	A ballot box	A transparent ballot box
"An Old" voting machine	A modern voting machine	To hack a voting machine	The vote is recorded

4. SOME PEOPLE ARE CHEATING:

	*
"Cheating" is a fraud and punished by the law	Voting machines can be rigged	Suspicions of fraud are many...

* new-fangled=  "new-fangled" means new but not as good or nice as the old system.

            Gerrymangering

There are many ways of cheating when organizing elections. The most constitutional way is gerrymangering, manipulating the composition of an electorate in order to ensure the election of a candidate or of another one.

There's also: intimidation, vote buying, disinformation, ballot box stuffing (consisting in putting more votes than voters), misrecording or counting of votes, destruction of ballots, tampering with electronic voting machines....

Electoral fraud is strictly punished by the law and the conclusion is “Fraud, although real, is modest.”

Time to enter your booth, think a lot... and your test will be brilliant.  

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1. 'Mom! You know what? My school has been turned into a polling stationpolling boothpolice stationI don't know for the elections on Sunday.
2. Piles of vote marksflyersboxesballotsI don't know have been put on our teacher's desk and you know what, Tim tried to pinch a few and was scolded...
3. Big pollsballotspostersvote marksI don't know have been pinned to the walls in the lobby.
4. A gentleman explained to us that, on Sunday, people are going to ballotto pollto line upto castI don't know to get to the postersflyersboothballot boxesI don't know and cast their ballotsflyersmarkspostersI don't know.
5. Before that, you have to go to a ballot boxstationpolling boothI don't know to choose the candidate you want to vote for.
6. He explained that in some countries, they make a boothvote markvoting machineballotI don't know on the people's finger and nail to make sure they won't vote twice.
7. In the US and in Asia, in big cities, they have electronic voting machinesballotspolling boothelection fraudI don't know.
8. To prevent vote markspolling boothelection fraudI don't know, they're trying to make them pollableunbreakableunhackableI don't know but some bad people are quite inventive...
9. Do you know who you're going to vote for or are you still uncanvassedunhackedundecidedunpolledI don't know ?
10. Look Mom, there are people dressed in red who're knocking at our neighbours' doors.' 'Yes, Lucy, they're pollingcanvassinghackingelectingI don't know in order to get votes for their favourite candidate.' 'I'll do that when I'm bigger if you tell me who to vote for!'