Suffrage
The 26th amendment lowered the voting age to what in all states?
What is 18?
This is the printed or computerized listing of candidates on which voters can indicate their choice.
What is a ballot?
What is the election which is considered final?
What is a general election?
This is the age people must be to register to vote.
What is 18?
The process of registering to vote has traditionally been done to prevent what?
What is voter fraud?
This is the amendment that said voting rights cannot be denied based on gender and it gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
This is what the location where people go to vote is called.
What are polls or polling places?
This type of election takes place BEFORE the final election and determines which candidates run in it.
What is a primary election (or primary)?
People must be this, meaning that they live in the state, in order to vote.
What is a resident?
During mid-term elections, which house of Congress is having elections for ALL of its members?
What is the House of Representatives?
The 15th amendment said that voting cannot be denied based on race or previous condition of slavery, which gave who the right to vote?
Who are African-American men?
This is how voters who cannot go vote in person can cast their vote.
What is mail-in voting or what is absentee voting?
This type of primary requires voters to be a member of that political party in order to vote.
What is a closed primary?
To vote in an election, people must be this, meaning they are a born or naturalized member of the USA.
What is a citizen?
Most elections require people to show one of these at the polling place to prove who they are.
What is a photo ID?
The National Voter Registration Act, often called the "Motor Voter" law, mandated that citizens should be allowed to conveniently register to vote where/when?
What is at a DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) or when they are renewing their driver's license?
This is the process of selecting your choice for a candidate for political office.
What is voting or what is casting a vote?
This type of election allows people to vote even if they are not registered to that political party.
What is an open primary?
Among all industrialized/developed nations, America scores low on this statistic relating to elections.
What is the percentage or number of registered voters who actually vote (voter turnout rate)?
The name of the retiring senator from Alabama whose seat is up for election in the mid-terms is who?
Who is Richard Shelby?
The Voting Rights Act was the law that outlawed certain discriminatory voting practices such as this, which required voters prove that they could read.
What is a literacy test or reading test?
This is what a person running for office is called.
What is a candidate?
This is what elections are called that take place half-way between a presidential election.
What are the mid-term elections?
Even if they meet the basic requirements to vote, people who are in this situation are not allowed to.
What is having a mental incapacity or having a certain felony conviction?
The congressman who represents us in the 1st Congressional District of Alabama in the U.S. House of Representatives, who is up for reelection in the mid-term elections?
Who is Jerry Carl?