A | B |
26th Amendment | lowered the voting age to 18 |
15th Amendment | could not keep someone from voting based on race |
19th Amendment | could not keep someone from voting based on sex |
referees | established by the Civil Rights Act of 1960 to ensure equal voting rights |
registration discrimination | made illegal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
voter-examiner | had to oversee any election which is less than half the electorate had voted in 1964 |
Motor Voter Law | allowed people to register to vote when they renewed their drivers license |
electorate | the entire potential voting public |
cannot voters | people who are unable to vote for one of many possible reasons |
nonvoting voters | people who go to the polls but do not vote for every office |
gerrymandering | the practice of redrawing district lines to limit the voting power of a certain group |
55% | Of the total number of people who could have voted in 1992, only _____ of people actually did |
Gallup Poll | most well known researcdh survery organization |
JFK | the first Catholic President |
30 days | in Ohio, you must register to vote at least ____ before the election |