This is the name of the controversial ballot used in Florida that caused problems in 2000.
What is a butterfly ballot?
100
This is the definition of "gerrymandering."
What is drawing political districts in a way that favors a particular group (and it's legal if not done to discriminate on the basis of race)?
100
這就是為什麼不識字的女巫被踢出女巫會的原因。
What is "she couldn't spell"?
200
This USSC case outlawed "all white" primaries.
What is Smith v. Allwright?
200
This is the day on which every election for U.S. Congress is held.
What is the first Tuesday after the first Monday?
200
This law was designed to increase voter registration by allowing you to register by mail or when doing other routine things, like going to the library or obtaining a driver's license.
What is the Motor Voter Law?
200
This is a type of ballot in which all candidates for a particular office are grouped together.
What is an office group (or office block, or Massachusetts) ballot?
200
This is the name of the type of ballot used in Florida that caused so much confusion.
What is the butterfly ballot?
300
These are two ways to gerrymander a district.
What are packing (i.e., putting lots of your opponents in one district to minimize their impact in other districts) and cracking (i.e., dividing your opponents among several districts to dilute their vote)?
300
The Constitution vests power in this level of gov't over the time, place, and manner of electing U.S. Representatives and Senators.
What is the states (more precisely, state legislatures)?
300
This USSC case outlawed poll taxes in state elections.
What is Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections (1966)?
300
This cheese, known as the "Queen of Cheeses," is a soft cheese named after a region in France.
What is brie?
300
這就是今天你的政府老師覺得特別傻的原因。
What is dressing up as a hungry hippo?
400
This is the case that held state-imposed term limits are unconstitutional.
What is U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton?
400
This is the number 1 indicator of whether you will vote.
What is level of education (the more educated you are, the likelier it is that you'll vote)?
400
These are the four elements of the Australian ballot.
What are (1) printed at gov't's expense; (2) all candidates' names are on the ballot; (3) given out at the polls; and (4) filled out in secret?
400
These are 3 of the 6 types of citizens (from a political participation perspective) that we discussed in class.
What are (1) inactives, (2) voting specialists, (3) campaigners, (4) communalists, (5) parochial specialists, and (6) activists?
400
These are 5 ways in which states impermissibly disenfranchised newly-freed slaves and their descendants notwithstanding the 15th Amendment.
What are (1) poll taxes, (2) literacy tests, (3) all-white primaries, (4) grandfather tests and (5) gerrymandering (in addition to violence and intimidation)?
500
This is a "blanket primary."
What is when you vote for candidates regardless of party and the top 2 vote-getters then compete in the general election?
500
These are the 4 things the HAVA did that we discussed in class.
What are (1) encourage electronic voting, (2) provide money for better training of poll workers, (3) provide money for better electronic voter ID records, and (4) allow for provisional voting?
500
These are the 5 "voting amendments."
What are the 15th (slaves), 19th (women), 23rd (DC), 24th (poll taxes in fed'l elections), and 26th (18 year-olds)?
500
This is the case AND the reasoning behind the case that said "malapportioned" districts are unconstitutional.
What is Wesberry v. Sanders (b/c it violated the principal of one-person, one-vote and thus violated the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment)?