VOTER REGISTRATION
Long detailed exams on local and national politics, history, and more
What is Literacy tests?
Electoral college votes
What is 538 votes?
Citizens choose every Republican or Democratic Party member on the ballot
What is straight-ticket voting?
Allows citizens to propose and pass laws that affect local towns or counties
What is local direct democracy?
Right to vote
What is suffrage?
Required voters to pay a fee to vote
What is poll taxes?
The total number of representatives in Congress has been fixed at 435
What is Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929?
Citizens register for parties based upon either position preference or socialization
What is party-line voting?
Allows citizens to propose and pass laws that affect state constitutions, state budgets, and more
What is statewide direct democracy?
Consists of persons who are eighteen and older
What is voting-age population (VAP)?
Ended poll taxes in 1964
What is the Twenty-Fourth Amendment?
The candidate who wins the most votes in November receives all the state's electoral votes, and only the electors from that party will vote
What is winner-take-all system?
Occurs when someone votes only for the top or important ballot positions, such as president or governor, and stops voting rather than continue to the bottom of a long ballot
What is ballot fatigue?
Asks citizens to confirm or repeal a decision made by the government
What is referendum?
Citizens eighteen and older who, whether they have registered or not, are eligible to vote because they are citizens, and not imprisioned
What is voting-eligible population (VEP)?
Establishes how long a citizen must live in a state before becoming eligible to register
What is residency requirement?
Electoral college was developed
What is 1787?
Has a political advantage over challengers at elections
What is incumbency advantage?
Most common form of direct democracy
What is the initiative, or proposition?
Sometimes called a jungle primary, pits all candidates against each other, regardless of party affiliation
What is a top-two primary?
Exempted individuals from taking literacy tests or paying poll taxes if they or their fathers or grandfathers had been permitted to vote prior to a certain point in time
What is Grandfather clauses?
Votes a candidate must get in order to win the presidential election?
What is 270?
Occurs when the voter looks at the candidate’s past actions and the past economic climate and makes a decision only using these factors
What is restrospective voting?
One of the more unusual forms of direct democracy; it allows voters to decide whether to remove a government official from office
What is recall?
Resulted in the Supreme Court's upholding the act's restrictions on how candidates and parties could spend campaign contributions
What is McConnell v. Federal Election Commission?