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

<p><strong>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!!</strong></p> <p><strong>FULL TRANSCRIPT: https://thinkinginenglish.blog/2020/11/01/15-election-day-vocabulary/</strong></p> <p><strong>INSTAGRAM - thinkinginenglishpodcast (https://www.instagram.com/thinkinginenglishpodcast/)</strong></p> <p><strong>Twitter - @thinkenglishpod</strong></p> <p><strong>BLOG: thinkinginenglish.blog</strong></p> <p><strong>EMAIL: thinkinginenglishpod@gmail.com</strong></p> <p><strong>VOCABULARY LIST</strong></p> <p><strong>To go to the polls (v) - to vote</strong></p> <p><em>The USA will go to the polls on November 3rd</em></p> <p><strong>To cast (v) - to vote</strong></p> <p><em>All the votes in the election have now been cast and counting has begun</em></p> <p><strong>absentee (n) - someone who is absent</strong></p> <p><em>If you can’t vote on election day, you can vote using an absentee ballot</em></p> <p><strong>intimidation (n) - the action of frightening or threatening someone, usually in order to persuade them to do something that you want them to do</strong></p> <p><em>As the election approaches, it will be difficult to prevent voter intimidation and fraud</em></p> <p><strong>invalidation (n) - the action of stopping a document, ticket, law, etc. from being legal or officially acceptable</strong></p> <p><em>Voting fraud led to the invalidation of the election</em></p> <p><strong>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</strong></p> <p><em>I could see immediately that the lock had been tampered with</em