Voting Legislation
This is the amendment that said voting cannot be denied on account of race or previous condition of slavery and gave African American males the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This is the printed or computerized listing of candidates on which voters can indicate their choice.
What is a ballot?
This is the name for wrongful redistricting.
What is gerrymandering?
This is the age people must be to register to vote.
What is 18 or what is 17 in a presidential election year?
People with this physical obstacle can find accessing polling places difficult.
What is a disability?
This is the amendment that said voting rights cannot be denied on account of gender and gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
This is what the location where people go to vote is called.
What are polls or polling places?
This is something that many people say should be expanded or changed so more people can have a chance to vote.
What are polling place hours or days?
People must be this, meaning that they live in the state, in order to vote in VA.
What is a resident?
Cutting down on these is a strategy some states use to prevent some populations from voting.
What are polling places or what are ballot boxes?
This is the amendment that gave voting rights to citizens 18 years and older.
What is the 26th amendment?
This is how voters who cannot go vote in person can cast their vote.
What is mail-in voting or what is absentee voting?
What is purging?
To vote in a presidential election, people must be this, meaning they are a born or naturalized member of the USA.
What is a citizen?
This is what people often have to use to vote if they cannot show photo ID, and many of these are later discarded.
What is a provisional ballot?
This is the law that is known as the motor voter act and that mandated how citizens can have access to vote registration at DMVs and other government offices.
What is the NVRA or National Voter Registration Act?
This is the process of selecting your choice for a candidate for political office.
What is voting or what is casting a vote?
Not having this can prevent many people from voting.
What is a photo ID?
Among all industrialized nations America scores low on this statistic.
What is the percentage or number of registered voters who actually vote (or similar)?
What is overthrow or overturn the election? What is take over the capital, storm the capital, etc.?
This is the law that outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act or what is the VRA?
This is what a person running for office is called.
What is a candidate?
This is what African-Americans were forced to pay at one time if they wanted to vote.
What is a poll tax?
Voters in VA who have this issue cannot register to vote.
This is when people try to scare, threaten, or keep voters away from the polls.
What is voter intimidation?