Voter Qualifications
This qualification means you are a member of the United States of America.
What is citizen of the United States?
What is the 15th Amendment?
When you register to vote using this method, you can do it from the comfort of your own home.
What is online registration?
This factor predicts which citizens will not vote based on the candidates or issues.
What is lack of interest?
Voters typically participate in these elections more than others.
What are presidential elections?
This qualification requires you to belong to a certain age by the day of the general election.
What is at least 18 years old?
This Amendment said all women can vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
When you register to vote using this method, you need to go to a specific location.
What is in-person a the registrar's office?
This factor predicts which citizens will vote based on the amount of money they make.
What is income?
Students can participate in the democratic process by doing this in the classroom.
What is participating in online simulations?
This qualification requires you to be a resident of a specific place in order to vote.
What is resident of your state and precinct (specific part of your city/town)?
This Amendment lowered the voting age to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
When you register to vote using this method, you need to obtain your application from a specific location, but you can send it from various spots.
What is mail in?
Spots to get your application: DMV, public libraries, government offices, designated locations.
These two factors often tie together and predict which citizens will vote.
What is education and age?
Students can participate in the democratic process by doing this outside of the classroom.
What is participating in campaigns?
I am a voter who is registered to vote in Chesapeake, Virginia, but I am temporarily living in Baltimore, Maryland for a job assignment. Am I allowed to vote here?
No. You must vote in the state and precinct where you are a resident of and are registered to vote.
This Amendment banned poll taxes.
What is the 24th Amendment?
Voter registration closes at this specific date.
What is 22 days before elections?
This factor predicts which citizens will not vote based on their failure to do something.
What is their failure to register to vote?
This Amendment made it legal for Washington, D.C. residents to vote for the president and vice president.
What is the 23rd Amendment?
I am a citizen of the United States and I am in the military. I currently live on a military base in Okinawa, Japan, but I am registered to vote in my hometown of Richmond, Virginia. Can I still vote in the U.S. elections?
Yes. U.S. military members can vote using absentee ballots so long as they are registered to vote in their home precincts in the United States.
This law stated that literacy tests were outlawed, as they were previously used to restrict African-Americans from voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Yes. Because you mailed in your application before the 22 day window, you will be registered in time.
This factor predicts citizens failure to vote based on their beliefs.
What is the belief that their vote does not count or will have no impact?
True or False: Every vote is important.
True.