Voting & Elections

What are the requirements to be able vote?

• You must be a U.S. Citizen and you must be 17+ years old.

• You must be a U.S. Citizen and you must be 18+ years old.

• You must be a U.S. Citizen and you must be 21+ years old.

What are you required to do before voting?

• Take a voting class

• Attend a campaign rally

• Register to vote

What is the Electoral College?

• A school for electors to learn how to choose the president

• The system by which the president of the U.S. is chosen; each state gets a certain number of electors based on its total number of representatives in Congress

• A voting system for state governors and congress

This is a two-part question: How many total electors are there in the Electoral College and how many electoral votes are needed to win the presidential election?

• 538 and 270

• 500 and 250

• 538 and 538

True or False: Pennsylvania has a total of 19 electoral votes. The winner of Pennsylvania’s popular vote gets all 19 electoral votes. The winner takes all.

• True

• False