Voting Legislation
This is the amendment that said voting cannot be denied on account of race or previous condition of slavery and gave African American males the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
What do you call list that presents the candidates to a voter?
What is a Ballot?
This is the name for wrongful redistricting.
What is Gerrymandering?
(Redlining is a similar practice but done through financial disadvantages)
This is the age people must be to register to vote.
What is 18 or what is 17 in a presidential election year?
People with this physical obstacle can find accessing polling places difficult.
What is a disability?
This is the amendment that said voting rights cannot be denied on account of gender and 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 is something that many people say should be expanded or changed so more people can have a chance to vote.
What are polling place hours or days?
In Florida, you must register to vote at least this many days before an election.
What is 29 days?
Cutting down on these is a strategy some states use to prevent some populations from voting.
What are polling places or what are ballot boxes?
This is the amendment that gave voting rights to citizens 18 years and older.
What is the 26th amendment?
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 is the process of eliminating registered voters from voter lists.
What is purging?
To vote in a presidential election, people must be this, meaning they are a born or naturalized member of the USA.
What is a Citizen?
This is what people often have to use to vote if they cannot show photo ID, and many of these are later discarded.
What is a provisional ballot?
This is the law that is known as the motor voter act and that mandated how citizens can have access to vote registration at DMVs and other government offices.
What is the NVRA or National Voter Registration Act?
This is the process of selecting your choice for a candidate for political office.
What is voting or what is casting a vote?
This is what African-Americans were forced to pay at one time if they wanted to vote.
What is a poll tax?
Among all industrialized nations America scores low on this statistic.
What is the percentage or number of registered voters who actually vote (or similar)?
After the last presidential election, the losing candidate and others tried to do this so their candidate would win.
This is the law that outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act or what is the VRA?
This is what a person running for office is called.
What is a candidate?
Not having this can prevent many people from voting.
What is a photo ID?
When did early voting start in FL
Monday October 21st (Yesterday)
This is when people try to scare, threaten, or keep voters away from the polls.
What is voter intimidation?