Elections and the Constitution
Where is the Right to vote in the Constitution?
What is no where. It is not there.
What does suffrage mean?
What is The right to vote?
The Electoral College is located here in the Constitution
What is Article 2?
This process by which people choose their representatives to serve in government
What is an election?
All states require that people do this before they can vote. In PA it is typically 30 days before the election.
What is register to vote?
Which Constitutional Amendment was ratified in 1971, allowing 18-year-olds to vote?
What is the 26th Amendment?
The first female Vice-presidential candidate
Who was Geraldine Ferraro (1984)?
There are this many total electoral votes in the Electoral College?
What is 538?
The election in which political parties choose their nominee for the general election. Unfortunately, third parties like the Green Party and Libertarian parties can't participate in Pennsylvania
What is a primary election?
It is where you can register to vote
What is online or at your local courthouse at the voter registration office
What amendment gave women the right to vote?
What is the 19th Amendment? It was passed in 1920.
She was the first woman to run for president even though she was less than 35 years old.
Who was Victoria Woodhull?
A state's electoral vote is determined by what two items?
What is the number of US Representatives it has plus its two US Senators?
The election in which the candidates nominated from all parties seek the most votes. This election usually happens in November
What is the general election?
The age you need to be in order to be elegible to vote
What is 18?
This Amendment gave the residents of Washington DC the right to vote?
What is the 23rd Amendment?
The most expensive item in a campaign budget?
What is advertising?
In order to win the presidency, a presidential candidate must win this many electoral votes?
What is 270?
A type of primary election where only registered voters in the Republican and Democrat parties can vote. (Hint: Pennsylvania has this type of primary election)
What is a closed primary. (Cerrado means closed in Spanish, in case you didn't know)
Political Parties put their proposed laws and principles on this document that can usually be found on their website? (Rock bands and actors also perform on these)
What is a platform?
They select the president if there is a tie in the Electoral College
What is the House of Representatives?
How many electoral votes does Pennsylvania have?
What is 18?
This president was the most recent to win the electoral college vote but not the popular vote.
Who was Donald Trump?
A type of primary election where ALL registered voters may participate, including the independents, can vote
What is an open primary?
Thanks to this 1993 federal law, states must allow people to renew their voter registration when they renew their driver's license
What is the Motor-Voter Law (National Voter Registration Act of 1993)?