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Who can Vote?
Voting Steps and Where to Vote
Other Stuff in Chapter 11
Other Stuff in Chapter 11 and Vocabulary Words
Vocabulary Words
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The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
100
Online, town hall, through the mail.
What is some places where you can register to vote?
100
By allowing more Americans to vote such as the age 18+ any race to vote, and now women can vote.
What is why has suffrage increased over the years?
100
Is a group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president based on the popular vote.
What is the Electoral College?
100
Basic belief.
What is principal?
200
People who are under the age of 18, not mentally stabled, people who have a criminal record, and not an American citizen are who cannot vote.
What is who cannot vote?
200
A voter who is informed about public issues and current events. Today, keeping up with the news is easier than ever. Web sites, television, radio, newspapers, books, and magazines are all good sources of information.
What is what does it mean to prepare to vote?
200
Are usually held in the spring or summer. The purpose is to choose one candidate from each party to run in the general election.
What is a primary election?
200
The votes cast by individual voters in a presidential election, as opposed to the electoral vote.
What is the popular vote?
200
To record or enroll.
What is register?
300
States that no person can be denied the right to vote because of race or color.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
300
Register, preparing, and casting.
What is the three basic steps for the voting process?
300
Is the election in which candidates from several parties run against each other and the winners of the election become government officials.
What is a general election?
300
Are Political organization established by a corporation, labor union, or other special-interest group designed to support candidates by contributing money.
What is political action committees?
300
The list of candidates for which you cast your vote.
What is ballot?
400
Extended suffrage to all American women.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
400
The place where you go to vote.
What is a polling place?
400
Primary election narrows down who will run in the general election.
What is how are primary and general elections different?
400
A procedure by which citizens can propose new laws or state constitutional amendments.
What is initiative?
400
A lack of interest.
What is apathy?
500
Ratified in 1971, lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
What is the Twenty-sixth Amendment?
500
Is the percentage of eligible voters who actually vote.
What is the voter turnout rate?
500
Is you have to be an American citizen, mentally stable, and has to be over the age of 18.
What is the basic requirements to vote?
500
A way for citizens to vote on state or local laws.
What is referendum?
500
A matter of debate or dispute.
What is issue?