Free the Vote Jeopardy Template

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Coalition

100

In this year, felony disenfranchisement first appeared in the TN Constitution, and

Banned all people with felonies from voting
Prior to that freed formerly enslaved people could vote in TN, this constitutional amendment explicitly disenfranchised all African Americans

A. What is 1800?

B. What is 1835?

C. What is 1865?

B. What is 1835?

100

No one lost the right to vote because of a conviction in this time period.

A. What is January 15, 1973 – May 17, 1981?

B. What is February 14, 1846 - January 18, 1855?

C. What is November 3, 2016 - November 3, 2020?

A. What is January 15, 1973 – May 17, 1981?

100

This U.S. state is #1 in the country for felony disenfranchisement of Black and Latinx voters.

A. What is Tennessee?

B. What is Mississippi?

C. What is Alabama?

A. What is Tennessee?

100

In November 2018, nearly 65 percent of Florida voters approved this constitutional amendment that automatically restored voting rights to most Floridians with past convictions who had completed the terms of their sentence.

A. What is Yes on 3?

B. What is Amendment 4?

C. What is Amendment 5?

B. What is Amendment 4?

100

This inside organization wrote a bill that will be introduced next year for universal voting rights to be restored.

A. What is Attica United?

B. What is Be The Change?

C. What is the Lifers Club of TCIX?

200

From January 15, 1973 to May 17, 1981 there was none of this in Tennessee.

A. What is Incarceration?

B. What is Bail?

C. What is Felony disenfranchisement?

200

Since the summer of 2023, everyone with felony convictions after May 17, 1981 has lost the right to vote. But if eligible they may be able to restore their right to vote through:

A. What is a pardon?

B. What is a petition to the court?

C. What is a Certificate of restoration?

D. What are A & C, or B & C?

200

TN is 1 of only this number of states that permanently disenfranchises ANYONE due to a felony conviction.

A. What is 5?

B. What is 15?

C. What is 25?

A. What is 5?

200

This formerly incarcerated led organization has a staff of more than 20 people across three Louisiana chapters—New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Lafayette. With Louisiana’s emergence in the criminal justice reform movement, this organization is recognized as the catalyst, mentor, strategist, and hub of an entire ecosystem in the deep south, where many people said criminal justice reform was a lost cause.

A. What is National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls?

B. What is Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People & Families Movement?

C. What is VOTE (Voices of the Experienced)?

200

Inspired by the strategies of sister organizations in Kentucky and Iowa, this coalition strategies involves pushing the governor's office to do this in order to restore voting rights.

A. Write an executive order

B. Resign

C. Pardon Secretary of State Tre Hargett

A. What is write an executive order?

300

In 1923, Bessie Smith, a blues singer from Chattanooga, TN released this song, her first of many songs to deal with the issue of incarceration, chain gangs, convict leasing, and capital punishment.

A. What is Locked Up?

B. What is Jailhouse Blues?

C. What is Touch Down To Cause Hell?

B. What is Jailhouse Blues?

300

This legal term for "paying back" is also a requirement to be paid off in order to be eligible for a certificate of restoration to restore your right to vote.

A. What is the c'est la vie?

B. What is writ of corium nobis?

C. What is restitution?

300

True or False?

TN is 1 of only 7 states that conditions the restoration of the right to vote on the payment of fines and fees.

What is TRUE?

300

This freedom fighter, suffragette, journalist, and anti-lynching crusader (pictured here) who moved to Memphis, TN, wrote an essay in 1910 entitled, "How Enfranchisement Stops Lynching."

Who is Ida B. Wells-Barnett?

300

This is the ultimate goal for the jail voting work of the coalition.

A. Free Them All

B. Make TN jails a polling location

C. Run an incarcerated candidate

B. What is make TN jails a polling location?

400

In 1870, African American men are guaranteed the right to vote, while the U.S. was still denying the right to vote to all women, by which amendment to the United States Constitution?

A. What is the 13th Amendment?

B. What is the 14th Amendment?

C. What is the 15th Amendment?

400

In January of 2024, State Elections Coordinator Mark Goins revealed that the state’s toughened voting rights restoration policy now requires people convicted of a felony to get these rights restored before they can become eligible to cast a ballot again.

A. What are employment rights?

B. What are gun rights?

C. What are rights to travel abroad?

B. What are gun rights?

400

This proportion of Black people in Tennessee who are disenfranchised due to a felony conviction.

A. What is 1 in 10?

B. What is 1 in 50?

C. What is 1 in 5?

400

This landmark piece of federal legislation signed into law during the height of the civil rights movement prohibits racial discrimination in voting, but left felony disenfranchisement untouched?

A. What is the 1st Step Act?

B. What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

C. What is the 1994 Crime Bil?

B. What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

400

This pending litigation with a trial date slated for December 9, 2024 filed by Campaign Legal Center, Free Hearts, Baker Donelson and Equal Justice Under Law, representing the Tennessee Conference of the NAACP and five Tennesseans seeking to restore their right to vote, in a lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s complicated voting rights restoration process.

A. State of TN vs Tyshon Booker

B. Tate vs Collins

C. TN NAACP v. Lee

C. What is TN NAACP v. Lee?

500

The image pictured above:

A. What is a Bus ticket?

B. What is a Poll Tax Receipt?

C. What is a Parking violation?

B. What is a Poll Tax Receipt?

Image source: Poll Tax Receipt, for C.A. McCamey, Knox County, 1894, Tennessee State Museum collection, 76.200.49

500

Tennessee is the only state that requires a person to be up-to-date on this in order to restore their right to vote.

A. What is the law?

B. What is rent?

C. What is child support?

500

Fill in the blank: Tennessee is _______ in the entire country for the highest rate of felony disenfranchisement.

A. What is first?

B. What is second?

C. What is tenth?

B. What is second?

500

This directly impacted led group hosted their annual National Convening from October 6th - 9th, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia to reconnect, strengthen community bonds, and prepare the nation to FREE THE VOTE ahead of a crucial election season. This year their conference will be in Detroit, and there are talks about bringing the conference to Nashville in 2026.

A. What is California Coalition for Women's Prisoners?

B. What is FRRC?

C. What is Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People & Families Movement?

500

This Tennessee bill as amended would remove the barriers of 1) court costs and 2) being current on the payment of child support as a condition to restore the right to vote AND would create a pathway to suffrage for individuals who are (permanently) ineligible to vote upon a 3 year waiting period.

A. What is HB0729/SB1002

B. What is HB1256/SB1241

C. What is HB2171/SB2309

B. What is HB1256 / SB1241?