Voting History
This term denies (does not allow) certain groups of people the right to vote (example: people with prison sentences)
What is disenfranchised voters?
This is the date of the general election for this upcoming presidential election.
What is Tuesday, November 5th, 2024?
These are the two states that are not winner-take-all in the Electoral College.
What are Nebraska and Maine?
This is the main profession that helped determine why Election Day is on the first Tuesday of November.
What is farming?
This NFL rookie quarterback just set the Chicago Bears passing yardage record.
Who is Caleb Williams?
The 19th amendment allowed what group of individuals the right to vote?
Women, although African-American women still faced discrimination.
This is the type of primary that any person may vote in.
What is an open primary?
This is the total number of electoral votes in the Electoral College and many votes are needed to win. (These are 2 different numbers).
What are 538 total and 270 to win?
This is the minimum age to be eligible to vote in the United States.
What is 18 years old?
This is the team the Chicago White Sox lost to that made them the worst team in MLB history.
Who are the Detroit Tigers?
This is the potential voting population (hint: this determines what age can vote)
What is the electorate?
This is the type of primary that voters must have registered to vote in and only allows members of a given party to vote in.
This is the number of Electoral Votes Illinois gets in 2024.
What is 19?
This is the length of time you have to live in your precinct to be eligible to vote on Election Day.
What is 30 days?
This is the former Chicago Bull who just announced his retirement.
Who is Derrick Rose?
This amendment made 18 year olds and over able to vote. Hint:"Old enough to fight, old enough to vote."
What is the 26th amendment?
This is the name of the "single day" that multiple states' primary elections are held on.
What is Super Tuesday?
These are the two kinds of states that are represented in the electoral college. Give an example of each. (Hint: both start with "s").
What are swing states and safe states? Swing example: Wisconsin, Georgia, etc. Safe example: California, Texas, etc.
Name the 3 ways to vote in the upcoming 2024 presidential election.
What are early voting, vote by mail, and traditional in-person voting?
This is the island where surfing was held for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
What is Tahiti?
These 2 pieces of political legislation removed barriers to voting which were deemed to be discriminatory towards groups like African Americans in the 1960s.
What is the 24th Amendment and the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
What are:
1. Announce official presidential candidates
2. Explain their platform
3. Announce their Vice President
True or false: it is possible to win the popular vote and still not win the election. What determines the overall win?
What is true? If a candidate has a larger amount of votes but does not win the majority in the Electoral College, they will not win the election.
This is the number of extra days that military and civilians overseas get for mail-in voting compared to regular civilians (everyone else).
What is 5 extra days?
This is the number of states that have 2 or more NHL teams.
What is 4? (New York - 3, California - 3, Florida - 2, Pennsylvania - 2).