Voting Unit (and Ukraine) - Review Sheet

Ukraine

• Yushenko
• Yanukovych
• Tymoshenko
• Yatsenyuk
• Poroshenko
• Putin
• 2004 Election / Who Won Initially
• Dioxin Poisoning
• Orange Revolution & Effects
• 2010 Election / Winner

Part One: Voting

• Democracy (meaning)
• Electoral College
• Access to Voting (arguments, recent issues, policies)
• Voter Fraud / ID Controversy
• Gerrymandering
• Cracking
• Packing
• Systems
• SMD-P: Single Member District Plurality aka FPTP: First Past The Post
• PR: Proportional Representation
• IRV: Instant Runoff aka The Alternative Vote
• STV: Single Transferable Vote

Part Two: Political Advertisements

• Strategies (Repetition, Hope, Fear, Authenticity, Damage Control, Symbolism, Humor, Targeted, Dramatic Attack)
• Lessons about each strategy from lecture / writing

Part Three:  Campaign Finance Reform

• PAC (Political Action Committee)
• Buckley v. Valeo
• Hard Money 
• Soft Money
• Citizens United vs. United States
• Super PAC
• 501c4
• Colbert SuperPAC
• Trevor Potter
• Questions about events from the show (viewing checks)