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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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