Voting and Election Laws
The minimum age to vote in a US federal election
What is 18 years old?
This type of election is held halfway through a president's four-year term, with all House seats on the ballot
What is a Midterm Election?
This is the number of voting members in the US House of Representatives
What is 435?
This amendment, ratified in 1920, guaranteed women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
This 39th president and peanut farmer was the first to be born in a hospital, at Wise Sanitarium in Plains, Georgia, in 1924
Who is Jimmy Carter?
The term for a ballot voters receive and return without going to a polling place
What is an absentee or mail-in ballot?
Before Election Day, many local election offices publish this preview of exactly what will appear on a voter's ballot
What is a sample ballot?
A candidate needs this many electoral votes to win the presidency
What is 270?
The 24th Amendment banned this kind of fee, once used to keep people from voting, in federal elections
What is a poll tax?
The word "gerrymander" combines Governor Elbridge Gerry's name with this animal, because a district he approved was said to resemble one
What is a salamander?
The next US Senate and Gubernatorial election in Massachusetts will take place on this date
What is November 3rd, 2026 (this year!)
In this voting system, voters rank candidates in order of preference, it was used in the 2025 NYC Mayoral Election
What is ranked choice voting?
There are only two states that can split their electoral votes between candidates, name 1 of them
What are Maine & Nebraska?
This landmark law, passed in 1965, prohibited racial discrimination in voting
What is the Voting Rights Act?
Stubbs, the longtime honorary mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska, got the job as a write-in candidate, and he was this type of animal
What is a cat?
The deadline to register to vote in the state of Massachusetts
What is 10 days before any election or town meeting?
Voters in 40 different states this fall will be able to vote on one of these: A law, issue, or topic put to a direct vote, to be decided through an election, as opposed to by elected officials
What is a Ballot Measure? (Ballot Initiative/Question, Referendum)
Every ten years, the US government conducts this count of the population, which determines how House seats are divided among the states
What is the census?
The "Motor Voter" law of 1993 requires states to offer voter registration at this government office
What is the DMV?
In 1916, four years before the 19th Amendment, Jeannette Rankin of this western state became the first woman elected to Congress
What is Montana?
When a voter's eligibility is in question at the polls, they can cast this type of ballot, which is counted only after officials verify it
What is a provisional ballot?
Elections are run at the state level. States are divided into districts based on what local offices are up for election in a given location. Districts are divided into these smaller geographic units, which each have a specific polling location:
What are precincts?
This is the method for determining how many electoral votes each state has
What is each state’s number of electoral votes is equal to the number of representatives and senators it has in Congress?
This 2002 federal law, passed after the 2000 election, requires provisional ballots and voting systems accessible to people with disabilitie
The White House’s first website went online in October 1994 during this President's administration
Who is Bill Clinton?