Voting and Elections

Two requirements for voting in the United States?

• 18 years old and a US citizen

• Have a drivers license and live in a state

• 21 years old & Educated about the issues

• Must register as a Republican or Democrat

Voters cast their ballots at a designated

• Polling place

• Election office

• Polling palace

• Campaign house

Parties hold primary elections to choose candidates who will run in the...

• General Election

• Closed primary

• School election

• Race

The constitutional amendments that gave African Americans the right to vote

• 15th Amendment

• 26th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 1st Amendment

The constitutional amendments that gave Women the right to vote?

• 19th Amendment

• 26th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 7th Amendment

Constitutional amendment that lowered the voting age from 21 years of age to 18?

• 26th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 24th Amendment

Absentee ballots are available for people who...

• will not be able to get to the polls. (Military & Elderly)

• Who commit a crime

• Can't read

• Who don't show up to school

Candidates for office run campaigns to...

• win votes

• register

• have fun

• lose votes

What decides the number of electoral votes a state has in the Electoral College?

• the state's representation in Congress

• the state's legislature votes on the number of electors

• the length of time a state has been in the union

• the state's total number of registered voters

How do Republicans and Democrats choose candidates for president?

• candidates are nominated at their national conventions.

• Candidates are chosen by a vote of the Electoral College.

• candidates are chosen by the parties' elected office holders