Election process game board apparatus

Claim 2

Game board apparatus, comprising: a game board having a playing path, the playing path having a plurality of areas designating various types of vote-getting practices, the game board having areas designating various States, certificates for indicating participation in the various vote-getting practices, chance means for determining the number of areas along the path through which the players advance in turn, marker means for each player for indicating the area to which the respective player has advanced in accordance with the chance means, a set of popular vote cards for each player, the popular vote cards for each player being in more than one denomination, one side of each popular vote card having a designation as to how many votes are represented by the card and the other side being free of any such designation, the popular vote cards being of a size to be superimposed on the individual State designating areas, the sets of popular vote cards having means for visually distinguishing the set of popular vote cards of each player from the set of popular vote cards of each other player, the playing path enabling the players to advance in turn to the vote-getting practice areas and thus receiving the certificates, and upon landing on the same vote-getting area again, receiving votes in the form of the popular vote cards which can be used in winning one or more States, and a separate electoral vote certificate corresponding to each State to be issued to the player who wins the respective State.

Claim 3

Game board apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein the States are separated into at least two regions so that voting can take place successively from one region to another.

Claim 4

Game board apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein the markers have means for visually distinguishing the marker of one player from the marker of any other player, and wherein the marker-visual-distinguishing means for any one player corresponds to the popular-vote-card-distinguishing means for that player.

Claim 5

Game board apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein the visual distinguishing means comprises a different color code for each player, and wherein the marker for each player has the same color code as the respective color code on the popular vote cards.

Claim 6

Game board apparatus, comprising: a game board having a playing path, the playing path having a plurality of areas designating various types of vote-getting practices, the game board having areas designating various States, certificates for indicating participation in the various vote-getting practices, chance means for determining the number of areas along the path through which the respective player has advanced in accordance with the chance means, a set of popular vote cards for each player, the popular vote cards being of a size to be superimposed on the individual State designating areas, the sets of popular vote cards having means for visually distinguishing the set of popular vote cards of each player from the set of popular vote cards of each other player, the playing path enabling the players to advance in turn to the vote-getting practice areas and thus receiving the certificates, and upon landing on the vote-getting practice area again, receiving votes in the form of the popular vote cards which can be used in winning one or more States, wherein the popular vote cards for each player are in more than one denomination, one side of each popular vote card having a designation as to how many votes are represented by the card and the other side being free of any such designation, wherein the markers have means for visually distinguishing the marker of one player from the marker of any other player, and whereiN the marker-visual-distinguishing means for each player corresponds to the popular-vote-card-distinguishing means for that player.

Claim 7

Game board apparatus, comprising: a game board having a playing path, the playing path having a plurality of areas designating various types of vote-getting practices, the game board having areas designating various States, certificates for indicating participation in the various vote-getting practices, chance means for determining the number of areas along the path through which the respective player has advanced in accordance with the chance means, a set of popular vote cards for each player, the popular vote cards being of a size to be superimposed on the individual State designating areas, the sets of popular vote cards having means for visually distinguishing the set of popular vote cards of each player from the set of popular vote cards of each other player, the playing path enabling the players to advance in turn to the vote-getting practice areas and thus receiving the certificates, and upon landing on the vote-getting practice area again, receiving votes in the form of the popular vote cards which can be used in winning one or more States, wherein the popular vote cards for each player are in more than one denomination, one side of each popular vote card having a designation as to how many votes are represented by the card and the other side being free of any such designation, wherein the markers have means for visually distinguishing the marker of one player from the marker of any other player, and whereiN the marker-visual-distinguishing means for each player corresponds to the popular-vote-card-distinguishing means for that player.

Claim 8

Game board apparatus as defined in claim 5, wherein the visual distinguishing means comprise color coding.

Claim 9

Game board apparatus as defined in claim 5, wherein the States are separated into at least two regions so that voting can take place successively from one region to another.