Voter Behavior

1. Gabriel Sarwan only votes for political candidates whose platforms directly benefit the profitability of his small business.

This voting behavior can best be characterized by which of the following models?

• Retrospective voting

• Prospective voting

• Party-line voting

• Rational choice voting

2. Which of these statements best explains why the Voting Rights Act of 1965 has been important to expanding political participation in the United States?

• It reduced the minimum legal age to vote from 21 to 18

• It introduced the requirement of showing an official form of identification to register for or vote in an election to deter voter fraud

• It ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, or national origin

• It enforced the Fifteenth Amendment by preventing states from using legal barriers to prevent African Americans from voting

Rachel votes for political candidates whose rhetoric and policy initiatives while serving in office align with what she wants to be done in the future.

• Retrospective voting

• Prospective voting

• Party-line voting

• Rational choice voting

In the past, some states limited voting rights by

• Passing political socialization laws

• eliminating literacy tests

• charging a poll tax

• overruling grandfather clauses

Literacy requirements were usually aimed at

• minority groups

• poor whites

• young voters

• all of the above

Which of the following statements best explains how the 17th Amendment increased democratic participation in the United States?

• It changed the minimum voting age from 21 to 18

• It extended the right to vote to women

• it changed the election process for US senators

• It extended the right to vote to black men

People who do not believe that their actions can affect politics have no sense of

• political socialization

• psychological factors

• cannot voter

• political efficacy

The process by which people gain their political attitudes is known as

• sociological factor

• party identification

• political socialization

• political efficacy

Teddy Flood lives in Texas and is voting in the 2018 election. When he gets to the ballot box, he decides to do straight-ticket voting, in which he checks one box to cast a ballot for every candidate from the Democratic party.

• Retrospective voting

• Prospective voting

• Rational choice

• Party-line voting

Which of the following scenarios would most likely be considered a violation of the Twenty-fourth Amendment?

• A state institutes a law requiring state-issued photo identification to vote

• A state institutes a fee to vote in a presidential election

• A state institutes a law requiring state-issued photo identification to vote

• A state institutes a law demanding that every voter should be paid for voting