ELIGIBLITY
What are the three main eligibility requirements to register to vote in the United States? 🗳️
What is you must be a U.S. citizen, a resident of the state in which you are registering, and at least 18 years old by Election Day?
Vot-ER's mission is to strengthen democracy by turning these into opportunities for civic empowerment
What is routine healthcare visits?
What are three common ways to register to vote? 📝
What is online, by mail using a paper form, or in person at a local election office or DMV?
True or False: You must re-register to vote every year.
What is False? Once you are registered, you are permanently registered unless you move or your information changes.
In early America, voting rights were often limited to this specific group of people.
What is white, male, property owners?
What is a common restriction that can prevent a person from being eligible to vote, even if they meet the age and citizenship requirements? 🚫
What is a felony conviction can prevent a person from voting?
Vot-ER operates with this nonpartisan approach, meaning it does not endorse any specific political candidate or party. 🤝
What is a civics-oriented approach?
What is the general deadline to register to vote before an election in most states?
What is many states require you to register at least 30 days before Election Day, although deadlines vary?
What should a voter do to update their registration if they have moved to a new address within the same county? 🏠
What is the voter should update their address with their local election office? Some states allow this online.
This amendment, ratified in 1920, gave women the right to vote. 👩🦳
What is the 19th Amendment?
True or False: You must be 18 years old to pre-register to vote in all U.S. states
What is False? While you must be 18 to vote, many states allow citizens to pre-register at a younger age, often 16 or 17.
According to Vot-ER, a key reason why 62% of unregistered voters haven't registered is because they have never been asked. By asking, Vot-ER aims to solve this. 🤔
What is the underrepresentation of certain communities?
This is the term for a method of voting where you can register and cast your ballot on the same day. ✍️
What is same-day voter registration or SDR?
Why might a voter's registration status be changed from "active" to "inactive"? 🤔
What is a voter's status may be changed to inactive if mail sent by election officials is returned as undeliverable or if the voter hasn't voted in a number of recent elections?
What were two methods used in the Jim Crow South to disenfranchise African American voters, even after the 15th Amendment was passed? 📚
What is poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses?
In some states, a person may be considered "mentally incapacitated" and lose the right to vote. What is required for this to happen? 🧠
What is a person must be adjudged mentally incompetent by a court of law?
What is the name of the wearable item Vot-ER provides to health professionals to easily integrate voter registration into their patient interactions? 📛
What is the Vot-ER Badge?
What type of voter registration automatically registers eligible citizens when they interact with a government agency, like the DMV, unless they opt out?
What is Automatic Voter Registration (AVR)?
What is the process called where election officials remove voters from the registration list who are no longer eligible, such as those who have died or moved away?
What is voter roll maintenance or a voter purge?
Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, this act outlawed discriminatory voting practices like literacy tests. 🏛️
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
What is the term for a person who is eligible to vote but has not yet registered?
What is an unregistered eligible voter or simply an eligible non-voter?
Vot-ER's work is based on the idea that civic engagement can address the root causes of public health outcomes. This concept is a "social determinant of health." What does this mean? 💡
What is a social determinant of health is a factor in a person's life that has a powerful effect on their health, such as their economic situation, education, or access to a safe neighborhood? Vot-ER believes that voting is also a social determinant of health.
Many states have deadlines for requesting and returning absentee or mail-in ballots. What is a key difference between a mail-in ballot that is postmarked by the deadline versus one that must be received by the deadline?
What is a ballot that must be postmarked by the deadline can be sent on or before that date and still be counted, even if it arrives later? A ballot that must be received by the deadline must physically arrive at the election office by the date and time specified.
What federal law requires states to establish and maintain a uniform, non-discriminatory program to ensure the accuracy of their voter registration rolls?
What is The National Voter Registration Act of 1993, also known as the "Motor Voter" Act?
In 1971, this amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. Why was this change made?
What is the 26th Amendment was ratified during the Vietnam War, based on the argument that if a young person was old enough to be drafted to fight, they should be old enough to vote?