Voting @ Georgetown
Within 5%, what % of Georgetown students are registered to vote (as of 2020)?
93%
If you submit a voter registration application and it’s accepted, you are typically assigned this based on your residential address.
What is a voting precinct (or congressional district/ward)?
When was the Voting Rights Act passed and what did it aim to achieve?
What is 1965 and aimed to significantly increase African American voting accessibility alongside the Civil Rights Movement.
This state has the greatest number of electoral votes
What is California?
Only voters who are officially enrolled with a party can take part in this form of primary.
What is a closed primary?
Where can students find stamps to mail in their ballots?
GU Politics Living Room
Under federal law, states must offer voter registration opportunities when citizens apply for or renew this commonly issued state document.
What is a driver’s license?
What age was the U.S. voting minimum set to in 1971?
What is 18
In the 2000 presidential election, a razor-thin margin and a Supreme Court case decided the outcome in this state.
What is Florida?
In some presidential nomination contests, this method, different from a primary, involves party members meeting and openly discussing their choices.
What is a caucus?
What year was GU Votes established?
HINT: Same year as GU Politics began
2015
If a state questions your eligibility when you register for a federal election, you may be required to cast this type of ballot, which is counted once eligibility is confirmed.
What is a provisional ballot?
When the U.S. first gained independence, what were the requirements to vote?
being a white male, 21 years or older, with property ownership
This state was the closest percentage-wise in the 2024 presidential election.
What is Wisconsin?
This state’s caucuses historically kicked off the presidential nomination process and were long seen as the first major test for candidates.
What is Iowa?
What is the website where students can register to vote or request an absentee ballot online through Georgetown’s portal?
GU Experience
States are required to keep voter registration records current; if a voter moves and does not respond to notices or vote in federal elections for multiple cycles, they may be removed after this type of process.
What is voter roll maintenance?
What amendment allowed women to vote across the U.S. and when was it formally certified?
the 19th amendment, certified in August, 1920
This state uses a nonpartisan primary with four winners who then run in a general election that uses ranked-choice voting.
What is Alaska
Once used in U.S. elections, this older primary system listed all candidates on one ballot and advanced the top vote-getter from each party.
What was a traditional blanket primary?
This is the annual GU Votes event that helps first-year students register to vote in their dorms at the start of the school year.
Storm the Dorms
Under federal law, states must accept and use this standardized form for registering voters in federal elections.
What is the Federal Voter Registration Form (National Mail Voter Registration Form)?
What was the first political party in the U.S.?
The Federalists
This state has the longest streak of voting for the Democratic presidential candidate, last voting for a Republican in 1972.
What is Minnesota?
One plan to fix the traditional primary calendar would divide the U.S. into regions, with only one region voting on each date.
What is the Interregional Primary Plan?