Vocab
This is an injunction:
What is a court order that either compels or restrains the performance of some act?
The right to vote:
What is suffrage?
The potential voting population:
What is the electorate?
This is a transient:
What is a person who plans to live in a State for only a short time?
A tax imposed as a qualification for voting:
What is a poll tax?
The official lists of qualified voters in each precinct:
What are poll books?
When the Constitution went into effect in 1789, only ______ were allowed to vote in the United States:
What were white male property owners?
The three universal requirements for voting in the United States today:
What are citizenship, residence, and age?
When voters exhaust their patience and/or knowledge as they work their way down the ballot:
What is ballot fatigue?
The difference between straight-ticket voting and split-ticket voting:
What is straight-ticket voting is voting along party lines. Split-ticket voting is voting for candidates of both parties in an election?
The practice of drawing electoral district lines in order to limit the voting strength of a particular group or party:
What is gerrymandering?
Women gained the right to vote via this legislation:
What is the 19th Amendment?
Which of the following is NOT a reason why some States deny people the right to vote?
a) residence in a mental institution
b) a criminal record
c) recent acquisition of U.S. citizenship
d) a dishonorable discharge from the military.
What is C, recent acquisition of U.S. citizenship?
People who feel their votes will not make a difference have no sense of:
What is political efficacy?
What is the only state that does not require voters to register?
What is North Dakota?
These are independents:
What are people who have no party affiliation?
Passed after the Civil War, the ______ Amendment was intended to protect any citizen from being denied the right to vote because of race or color:
What is the 15th Amendment?
Under the Constitution, the _________ has/have the power to set election law, but the __________ has/have taken on some of this power by placing five restrictions on voting rights:
What are the States; Federal Government?
This is the gender gap:
What is the difference between the partisan choices of men and women?
People who go to the polls but do not cast a vote in every race on the ballot are called:
What are non-voting voters?
To be disenfranchised:
What are citizens denied the right to vote?
How can a State or county "bail-out," or be removed from coverage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
What is by proving that it has not applied any voting procedures in a discriminatory way for at least 10 years?
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 required that all new election laws in certain States be given _______, or approval, by the Department of Justice:
What is preclearance?
Why is low voter turnout in the United States a serious problem?
What is democracy depends on as many people as possible being involved in the political process?
What five options does a voter have in a two candidate race?
What are:
Vote for A
Vote against A
Vote for B
Vote against B
Vote for neither?