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8 Cards in this Set
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Voting-age population
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Citizens who are eligible to vote after reaching the minimum age requirement
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Registered voters
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People who are registered to vote
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Literacy test
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A requirement that citizens show that they can read before registering to vote
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Poll tax
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A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote
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Grandfather clause
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A clause in registration laws allowing people who do not meet registration requirements to vote if they or their ancestors had voted before 1867
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White primary
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The practice of keeping blacks from voting in the southern states' primaries through arbitrary use of registration requirements and intimidation
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Australian ballot
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A government-printed ballot of uniform dimensions to be cast in secret that many states adopted around 1890 to reduce voting fraud associated with party-printed ballots cast in public
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Activists
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People who tend to participate in all forms of politics
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