Government Structures
Electoral, Judicial, Legislative
What are the three branches of the US government?
A process of consolidating votes, not a physical place!
What is The Electoral College?
This is the method for submitting ballots in Washington State.
What is voting by mail?
Newspapers, social media, friends and family.
What are some of the places we are getting our news?
The House of Representatives, and the Senate.
What is Congress?
The number of electoral votes in Washington state
What is 12.
Libraries and other public buildings.
What are the typical location of ballot drop boxes in WA?
Websites where experts confirm or deny the validity of news content.
What are fact-checkers?
There are 2 legislators in each state serve a 6 year term.
What are Senators.
This is the number of electoral votes that a presidential candidate must receive in order to win the election.
What is 270?
Because your voter registration is not up to date, and/or because your signature does not match with your voting records.
News headlines that use buzzwords and emotionally triggering verbiage to get you to engage with it.
What is "Clickbait?"
435 elected officials
What is the total number of seats in the House of Representatives?
This was the year that the process of consolidating state votes to an elector began. This process would come to be known as the electoral college.
What is 1789?
90 days before the election.
What is the amount of time before an election that you can request an absentee ballot?
Only believing one point of view, because you only consume media that affirms your point of view.
What is conformation bias?
We are the final interpreters of the constitution in the United States.
Who is the Supreme Court.
The total number of electoral votes in the United States.
What is 538 votes?
8 days before an election.
What is the number of days before an election that you must register to vote, or change your registration information in order to participate in said election?