Important Dates
November 3, 2020
What is the date of the general election?
Absentee Ballot
What is a vote cast by someone who is unable or unwilling to attend the official polling station to which the voter is normally allocated?
Ballotpedia
What is a website that provides neutral and accurate candidate information?
The Fifteenth Amendment
What is the 1870 amendment to the United States Constitution that prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"?
20.8%
What is the percentage of Towson University students who voted in the 2018 Mid-Term Elections?
April 28, 2020
What is the date for the Maryland Primary Election?
Primary Election
What is a preliminary election whereby voters decide their party's candidates?
League of Women Voters
What is a non-partisan organization that provides voter information?
The 19th Amendment
What is the 1920 amendment to the US Constitution that gave women the right to vote?
Office of Civic Engagement & Social Responsibility
What is TU office that promotes political engagement, sponsors environmental initiatives, community service, and service-learning initiatives for faculty along with the campus newspaper program, monthly New York Times Talk lunches, and panels and debates on Freedom Square?
April 7, 2020
What is the deadline to register to vote online or by mail and participate in the primary election?
General Election
What is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are chosen?
Maryland State Board of Elections
What is the official state agency that oversees the primary and general elections including voter registration, change of address, absentee ballots, provisional ballots and collecting ballots on election day?
Voting Rights Act of 1965
What is the federal law that outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting?
The 24th Amendment to the Constitution
What is the amendment to the US Constitution that was ratified in 1964 that eliminated poll taxes?
Friday, April 24, 2020
What is the deadline to request an absentee ballot for the Maryland Primary Election if you would like to download a ballot from the State’s website?
Provisional Ballot
What is a ballot that is used to record a vote when there are questions about a voter's eligibility that must be resolved before the vote can count?
The Restoration of Voting Rights in Maryland
What the 2016 law that gave people who had been convicted of a felony and completed serving a court-ordered sentence the ability to register to vote?
The Americans with Disabilities Act
What is the federal law passed in 1990 that provides that people with disabilities can vote in private, without help and have an accessible polling place with voting machines for voters with disabilities?
Friday, October 30, 2020
What is the deadline that a request for an absentee ballot must be received by your local board of elections if you would like if you want to download your ballot from the State's website?
TurboVote
What is an easy to use app that can be used to register to vote, get voting and get candidate information?
What is a website where you can enter your address to find your polling place, build your ballot with our online voters' guide and more?
The 26th Amendment to the Constitution
What is the amendment to the US Constitution passed in 1971 that lowered the voting age for all elections to 18?
What is the party OCE is hosting on election night?