Chapter 6 Vocabulary

The process of reviewing lists of registered voters and removing the names of those no longer eligible to vote; a purification

• PURGE
• FIRED
• STRIKE

Person living in a State (any state) for only a short amount of time, without legal residence

• homeless
• transient
• illegal alien

A procedure of voter identification intended to prevent fraudulent voting

• Suffrage
• Literacy
• Registration

The right to vote

• Left to vote
• Liberty
• Suffrage

Voting for candidates of only one party in an election.

• split-ticketing voting
• straight-ticket voting

List of all the registered voters in each precinct

• Poll books
• phone book
• census

A person's ability to read or write

• communication
• suffrage
• literacy

Voting for candidates of different parties for different offices at the same election

• straight-ticket voting
• split-ticket voting

All the people entitled to vote in a given election

• voter
• electorate
• purge

Measureable differences between the partisan choices of men and women today

• Gender gap
• Injunction