15. Election Day Vocabulary!! (English Vocabulary Lesson)

On today’s episode, the final episode in this series on US election vocabulary, we will look at the Election Day. Who can vote? Where do they vote? How do they voter? When will the results be announced? When will the winner become president? These questions, and the vocabulary connected to them, will be answered in today's episode of Thinking in English! If you haven’t already, make sure you listen to episodes 6, 9, and 12 for even more political vocabulary!! FULL TRANSCRIPT: https://thinkinginenglish.blog/2020/11/01/15-election-day-vocabulary/ INSTAGRAM - thinkinginenglishpodcast (https://www.instagram.com/thinkinginenglishpodcast/) Twitter - @thinkenglishpod BLOG: thinkinginenglish.blog EMAIL: [email protected] VOCABULARY LIST To go to the polls (v) - to vote The USA will go to the polls on November 3rd To cast (v) - to vote All the votes in the election have now been cast and counting has begun absentee (n) - someone who is absent If you can’t vote on election day, you can vote using an absentee ballot intimidation (n) - the action of frightening or threatening someone, usually in order to persuade them to do something that you want them to do As the election approaches, it will be difficult to prevent voter intimidation and fraud invalidation (n) - the action of stopping a document, ticket, law, etc. from being legal or officially acceptable Voting fraud led to the invalidation of the election To tamper (v) - to make changes to something that you should not, usually without enough knowledge of how it works or when you are trying to damage it I could see immediately that the lock had been tampered with suppression (n) -the act of preventing something from being seen or expressed or from operating The suppression of free speech electorate (n) - all the people who are allowed to vote The electorate chose Barack Obama as the next President of the USA surge (n) - a sudden and great increase There has been a surge in house prices recently --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinking-english/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices