This political party makes up the majority of Texas residents.
What is the Republican Party?
100
When is the first day a United States citizen is eligible to register to vote?
What is 18th birthday?
100
How often Midterm Elections are held
What is every 2 years?
100
The year of the last presidential election.
What is 2012?
100
In this year, the first African American president was elected.
What is 2008?
200
True or false: You must be a permanent resident in Texas in order to register to vote in Texas.
What is false?
200
True or false: In all 50 states, a valid photo ID is required to cast a vote.
What is false?
Only 17 out of 50 state require voters to present valid photo identification.
200
The next year Midterm Election will be held.
What is 2016?
200
A ceremonial event marking the commencement of a new four-year term of a president of the United States.
What is Inauguration Day?
200
The Women's suffrage movement ended in 1920 with this amendment.
What is the 19th Amendment?
300
This is the last day to register in order to be eligible to vote in an election.
What is 30 days before the election?
300
This is the highest political office that is not directly voted on by American Citizens.
What is the President of the United States?
300
The highest office that can be voted for during Midterm Elections.
What is the United States Congress?
300
The institution that elects the President and Vice President of the United States every four years.
What is the Electoral College?
300
The piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
400
True or false? Texas is one of 20 states in which voting rights are restored to a convicted criminal upon completion of his or her sentence
What is true?
400
The process by which U.S. citizenship is granted to a foreign citizen after he or she fulfills the requirements established by Congress in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
What is naturalization?
400
What Texas governor was elected in the 2014 midterm elections?
Who is Greg Abbott?
400
The 2016 Presidential Election will be held on what day?
What is November 8, 2016?
400
These state and local laws enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States using literacy tests and poll taxes to stop nearly all blacks from voting.
What are Jim Crow laws?
500
These are the four political parties officially recognized by the state of Texas.
What is Democratic Party, Republican Party, Libertarian Party, and Green Party?
500
Voting by some other method than in person on Election Day. Typically, this type of voting occurs either by mail or on the internet.
What is absentee voting?
500
The political party that won control of the Senate in the 2014 midterm elections.
What is the Republican Party?
500
The United States presidential election of 2016 will be the ___th election?
What is the 58th?
500
Statue enacted to prevent African Americans from voting by only allowing those who were able to vote before 1867 and/or those whose father or grandfather could vote before 1867 to vote.