Voting Basics
This is the minimum age you must be to vote in a federal election in the U.S.
What is 18?
This local official is often the head of a city government.
What is the mayor?
These are locations where voters go to cast their ballots in person.
What are polling places?
Federal law guarantees this right regardless of race or gender.
What is the right to vote?
This is the number of years a single NYC mayoral term lasts.
What is four years?
This is the process of signing up to vote before an election.
What is voter registration?
These local meetings allow community members to directly influence policies.
What are town halls?
This type of ballot can be mailed in before Election Day.
What is an absentee ballot?
If your name isn’t on the voter list, you can still vote using this kind of ballot.
What is a provisional ballot?
He is the current mayor of New York City as of 2022.
Who is Eric Adams?
This type of election happens every four years and determines the U.S. President.
What is a presidential election?
These bodies make laws at the city or county level.
What are city councils or county boards?
This is the deadline by which voters must register in most states.
What is the voter registration deadline?
Voters who face intimidation at the polls can report it to this group.
What is alerting the municipal Clerk or Election Officials at polling locations
In NYC mayoral elections, this is the month when the general election is usually held.
What is November?
These are the two major political parties in the United States.
What are the Democratic and Republican parties?
You vote for this person if you want to impact your school district's decisions.
What is a school board member?
The U.S. uses this system to elect the President.
What is the Electoral College?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
In NYC elections, this type of voting allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference.
What is ranked-choice voting?
This act, passed in 1965, aimed to eliminate racial discrimination in voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
In some states, you can propose or vote on laws directly through this process.
What is a ballot initiative or referendum?
These volunteers help run elections by checking in voters and handing out ballots.
What are poll workers?
This civil rights leader was instrumental in the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
To qualify for public matching funds in NYC’s mayoral race, candidates must meet this requirement related to small-dollar donations.
What is raising a minimum amount of small contributions from NYC residents?