Election Protection
The Tuesday following the first Monday in November.
What is election day?
The three branches of government.
What are the executive, judicial, and legislative branches?
The nominations for the Democratic party for president and vice president.
Who are former vice president Joseph Biden and US senator Kamala Harris?
The age that you are eligible to vote.
What is age 18?
The presidential candidates are chosen at what political party gathering?
What is a convention?
True or False: you can campaign within 100ft from a polling place.
False
The two major political parties.
What are the Democrat and Republican parties?
The age at which you can run for president.
What is age 35?
The calendar date of the next presidential election.
What is Tuesday, November 3, 2020?
The year in which women were given the right to vote.
What is 1920?
Either legal or illegal ways that prevent eligible voters from registering to vote or voting.
What is voter suppression?
The two bodies of Congress.
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
The body which ultimately determine the winner of a presidential election?
What is the electoral college?
True or False: It is possible to win the popular vote but lose the presidential election.
What is true?
The mascots for the major political parties.
What are the donkey (Democrat) and elephant (Republican)?
The Amendment to the US Constitution securing the right to vote for all US citizens regardless of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is the 15th Amendment?
The number of years that a US Senator can serve in Congress.
What is 6 years?
The state with the most electoral votes at 54.
What is California?
A state where the two major political parties have similar levels of support among voters.
What is a swing state?
The only president ever elected unanimously.
Who is George Washington?
The federal act that prevents racial discrimination in voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
The number of years a member of the House of Representatives can serve.
What is 2 years?
The governing body that breaks the tie in a presidential election.
What is the House of Representatives?
The percent of eligible voters who voted in the 2016 presidential election?
What is 61.4%?
The first African-American president of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?