facts about voting
This percentage of the eligible voting population voted in 2020
66%
The date of the Presidential Election
What is November 5?
To be president of the US, you must be at least this age
What is age 35?
You must be this age to vote
What is 18?
A person who runs for a public office
What is a candidate?
One of our two main political parties
What is the Republican party or the Democrat party?
Black men were allowed to vote after the passage of this amendment in 1869
What is the Fifteenth amendment
True or false: voter registration forms are hard to get.
False! Voter registration forms are available at a variety of locations such as post offices, libraries, and online.
A system of government where the people who live in the country take part in the way their community runs.
What is a democracy?
A person who holds a public office and wants to be elected to that office again
What is an incumbent?
This is one of five requirements to register to vote.
What is a United States citizen?
18 years old by election day
A resident of the state in which you are voting
Not a felon.
Not judged mentally incompetent.
A form voters used to show for whom they vote.
What is a ballot?
This is when multiple candidates get together to answer questions and argue issues
What is a debate?
Until this year, women were not allowed to vote
What is 1920
A way people can vote when they can’t get to their polling place
What is absentee voting?
A set of electors who are selected to elect a candidate to particular offices
What is the electoral college ?
A meeting of delegates of a political party at the local, state, provincial, or national level to select candidates for office.
What is a political party convention?
One of the women who organized the Women’s Suffrage Movement and gained women the right to vote
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton or Lucretia Mott?