ELIGIBILITY
If you are a U.S. citizen living abroad, are you still eligible to vote in federal elections? 🌎
What is Yes? The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) allows U.S. citizens living abroad to vote absentee in federal elections.
What is the name of the month-long initiative Vot-ER organizes to promote civic engagement and voter registration in the healthcare community? 🗓️
What is Civic Health Month?
What is the main difference between an absentee ballot and a mail-in ballot? 🗳️
What is absentee ballots are typically requested by a voter who will be absent on Election Day or meets specific criteria, while mail-in ballots are automatically sent to all registered voters in states that use this system?
What is the primary reason a voter's registration might be canceled?
What is the voter has passed away?
What constitutional amendment eliminated the Poll Tax, a tactic used primarily to disenfranchise poor voters, especially in the South? 💰
What is the 24th Amendment (ratified in 1964)?
What is the term for the process where a person's voting rights are restored after a felony conviction? ⚖️
What is Felony disenfranchisement restoration or simply restoration of voting rights?
Besides voter registration, Vot-ER’s work also helps address a key reason for civic engagement—what is it? 🧑⚕️
What is Building trust between health providers and patients?
This type of voter registration system automatically updates a voter's address when they move, if they have already provided their new address to a government agency like the DMV. 🔄
What is Automatic Voter Registration (AVR)?
If a person's voter registration is canceled without their knowledge, what is the process they must go through to vote again? 📋
What is they must re-register to vote?
What 19th-century Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans, whether free or enslaved, were not and could not be citizens, thereby denying them the right to vote or sue in federal court? ⚖️
What is the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision (1857)?
Besides U.S. citizens, what other group of people is sometimes allowed to vote in local elections in a few U.S. jurisdictions? 🗺️
What is Lawful permanent residents (also known as "green card holders") or non-citizens?
Vot-ER's website states their civic engagement is a non-partisan effort. Why is this important for their work in healthcare settings? 🏥
What is it ensures that their voter registration efforts are trusted by people of all political backgrounds and focuses on the act of voting as a civic duty, not a political preference?
In some states, a voter can register to vote by simply indicating their intention to register on a form for a different government service, such as a driver's license application. This is a provision of what federal law? ✍️
What is the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, also known as the Motor Voter Act?
In what way does voter roll maintenance help ensure the integrity of elections? ✅
What is it removes ineligible voters from the rolls, such as those who have died or moved, to prevent fraud and maintain accurate lists?
The 19th Amendment was largely the result of the women's suffrage movement. What was the name of the convention held in 1848, considered the unofficial start of the organized suffrage movement in the U.S.? 📢
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
A college student from New York attending school in California wants to register to vote. What two states are they eligible to register in? 🎓
What is they are eligible to register to vote in either New York or California, but not both? They must choose one as their state of residency.
Vot-ER's campaign, the Healthy Democracy Campaign, works with healthcare institutions to promote what? 🩺
What is promoting the idea that voter registration is an essential part of the healing process?
What is the term for the process that allows voters to cast a ballot before Election Day at a designated location? 🗓️
What is Early voting?
What is the name of the multi-state organization that helps election officials in member states keep their voter rolls accurate by sharing voter information? 🌐
What is the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC)?
After the Civil War, the 15th Amendment was meant to secure the right to vote regardless of race. However, states quickly adopted measures like literacy tests, poll taxes, and "Grandfather Clauses." What was the collective name for these restrictive, post-Reconstruction state laws? 🔒
What is the Jim Crow laws or the Black Codes?
What is the legal term for a voter's place of residence, which determines where they are eligible to register and vote? 📍
What is Domicile?
What is the name of the group of health professionals Vot-ER mobilizes to lead voter registration efforts in their communities? 🤝
What is The Civic Health Fellowship?
What is the specific legal requirement for a voter to be considered registered in a state with "same-day voter registration?" ⌛
What is they must meet the state's eligibility requirements and present a valid form of identification or proof of residency at the polling place on Election Day?
Name two actions a registered voter can take to ensure their registration remains active and they are not designated as "inactive." 📬
What is voting in recent elections or responding to a notice from their local election official.
What is the legal doctrine, challenged by the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that the Supreme Court affirmed could restrict the right to vote based on race in primary elections, since the primaries were considered private affairs of political parties? ⚪
What is the "White Primary" doctrine (affirmed in Grovey v. Townsend, but later struck down)?