U.S. Voting Basics
This amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
This 1965 law prohibited racial discrimination in voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
When you vote before Election Day, it’s called this.
What is early voting?
The age at which californians can pre-register to vote
What is 16 years old?
When are VoteSC Meetings?
What is Bi-Weekly on Tuesday at 8 PM
These elections determine which candidate from each party will run in the general election
What are primary elections?
This amendment granted women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This type of ballot allows you to vote by mail instead of in person.
What is a mail-in or absentee ballot?
California uses this type of primary system where all candidates appear on the same ballot
What is the top-two primary system?
What center supports VoteSC’s work?
Center for the Political Future
This term refers to voting for candidates from only one political party on a ballot
What is straight-ticket voting?
Before the 24th Amendment, some states required this payment in order to vote.
What is a poll tax?
In this system, voters rank candidates in order of preference.
What is ranked-choice voting?
USC’s largest annual voter registration event
What is National Voter Registration Day?
Name VoteSC’s current and previous president?
Shruthi Nadathur and Elsie Bencke
If no presidential candidate wins a majority of electoral votes, this body chooses the President
What is the House of Representatives?
This Supreme Court case weakened parts of the Voting Rights Act in 2013.
What is Shelby County v. Holder?
When voters cast a ballot without choosing any candidate for a particular race, it’s called
What is an undervote?
California voters can propose new laws or constitutional amendments directly through this process
What is the initiative process?
What is the umbrella student assembly under which VoteSC operates?
Political Student Assembly
This federal law, passed in 2002 after the 2000 election controversy, updated voting equipment standards and created provisional ballots.
What is the Help America Vote Act (HAVA)?
This 1966 Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act
What is South Carolina v. Katzenbach?
This type of election is held to fill a political office that has become vacant before the end of a term
What is a special election?
This proposition, passed in 2010, created California’s current top-two primary system.
What is Proposition 14?
Who is VoteSC’s faculty advisor?
Who is Steph Domond?