California
In 2018, 64.5% of registered voters in CA voted in the midterms — the highest voter turnout since what year
1982
The census, an important tool that determines allocation of representation, happens every x years.
10
The voter registration applications of many Native Americans have been rejected because the applicants living on reservations do not have what?
street addresses
At the founding of the U.S. — voting rights were mainly restricted to this group
property owning white men
Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner — two Jewish activists were murdered along with African-American activist James Chaney in 1964 in what effort to encourage African Americans to vote?
Freedom Summer
The two houses of representation in California are known as:
Assembly and Senate
While districts are redrawn in many states by the state legislature, Prop 11 established that in California, districts are redrawn by what?
non-partisan citizens' commission for redistricting
These laws — increasingly being passed in many states take on the troubling issue of voter impersonation — a nearly non-existent phenomenon that has been verified a whopping 31 times in the past 14 years across the United States
Voter ID Laws
Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th amendment by 1 vote in the state legislature ensuring what?
women's right to vote
Reform Rabbi Stephen Wise (1874-1949) traveled around the country giving lectures as a founding member of The Men’s League for __________?
Women's Suffrage
California has______ electoral votes
55
The most difficult place in the United States to get an accurate count for the census is where?
LA County
Since 2013, more than 1600 what have closed — making the sheer access to vote increasingly difficult in some states?
polling places
In 2018, Florida voters passed an amendment to their state constitution to restore voting rights to 1 million ex-felons only to have the move undermined by what?
A law passed by the state legislature withholding that right for anyone with outstanding fine
American Jews, while only 2% of the population, are known to vote in disproportionately high numbers. In 2016, while 65% of the general LA county voter base voted, ____% of Jews did.
78%
Of the 435 representatives in the House of Representatives, California has how many?
53
Many prisons are located in rural white communities with small populations. Those who are currently incarcerated in those prison — do they count in the census and can they vote
They count in the census but cannot vote -- lending further disproportionate representation to rural white communities
Name three tactics used in the Jim Crow era to suppress the vote of minorities:
literacy tests, poll taxes, property-ownership requirements, moral character tests, requirements that voter registration applicants interpret particular documents, and grandfather clauses
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was drafted in the conference room of this organization:
The Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism
Providing a Jewish values basis for the importance of voting, Pirkei Avot commands us “Do not separate yourself from the ________?”
community
The second largest group of registered voters in California has put down this affiliation:
No Party Preference
What constitutional amendment extended the right to vote to African American men in law if not yet in practice?
15th
In 2017, a North Carolina voter ID law was struck down because the court claimed that it targeted African-Americans and attempted to limit their voting rights with what?
“almost surgical precision.”
In 2013, The Supreme Court Case Shelby County v. Holder decided what?
Key provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were no longer necessary — opening the door for many places in the south to amp up efforts for voter suppression
The first Noahide law — incumbent upon all people regardless of religion, is what? _______
establishment of a system of government