Voting Rights
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment
This organization enforces campaign finance laws
What is the Federal Election Commission (FEC)?
This stage involves early fundraising and gaining support before primaries
What is the invisible primary/
This is the total number of electoral votes in a presidential election
What is 538?
This process redistributes House seats after the census
This amendment lowered the voting age to 18
What is the 26th amendment?
This 2010 Supreme Court case allowed unlimited spending by corporations and unions
What is Citizens United V. FEC?
These elections allow voters to choose party nominees
What are primary elections?
This is the number of electoral votes needed to win
What is 270?
This process redraws district boundaries
What is redistricting?
This law banned racial discrimination in voting in 1965
What is the Voting Rights Act?
These committees can raise unlimited money but cannot coordinate with candidates
What are Super PACs?
This event officially nominates a party's presidential candidate
What is the national convention?
This system gives all electoral votes in a state to the winning candidate
What is Winner-take-all?
This term describes drawing districts to benefit a political party
What is gerrymandering?
This amendment eliminated poll taxes in federal elections
This law required disclosure of campaign contributions in 1971
What is the Federal Election Campaign Act?
These representatives vote at conventions on behalf of voters
What are delegates?
These individuals officially cast votes for president in December
What are electors?
This tactic packs opposition voters into one district
What is packing?
This supreme court case weakened federal oversight of voting laws in 2013
What is Shelby County V. Holder?
These groups can spend unlimited money without revealing donors
What are dark money groups?
Candidates often shift toward this political position to win general elections
What is the political center?
If no candidate wins 270 electoral votes, this body chooses the president
What is the House of Representatives?
This Supreme Court case established "one person, one vote"
What is Reynolds V. Sim