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19 Cards in this Set
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voting-age population
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citizen who are elegible to vote after reaching the minimum age requirement.
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registered voters
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poeple who are registered to vote no. keeps reducing.
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Voter apathy
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Lack of motivation to vote.
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Expanded suffrage.
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Rigth to vote expansion.
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motor voter registration
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National voters Registration (1993) allowed people to registered to vote while they get their license.
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Literacy test
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Requirement that citizens show they can read before registering to vote; enacted by states.
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Poll tax
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requirement citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote.
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Grandfather clause
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A clause in registration allowing people who do not meet registration requirements to vote if their ancestors voted before 1867.
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While primary
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practice of keeping blacks from voting in southern state's primaries through abitary use of registration requirements and intimidation.
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Activist
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people who participate in all forms of politics.
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15th Amendment
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(1855) voting rigths to all cannot be denied by states.
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19th amendment
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gave women rigth to vote (1920).
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23rd amendment
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Rigth to vote in district of Washington.
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24th amendment
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Prohibit poll taxes in federal elections.
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26th amendment
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lowered voting age to 18.
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Ideologues
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The influences in one's affliations and opinions; voters who connect opinions to party lines; 12%.
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Group Benefit voters
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42% of people; people connect their opinion to those of their "group" (i.e. labor unions, intrest gruop, class)
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Nature of times voters
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24% of people linked good or bad times during elections to the party in control and vote the opposite.
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No issue voters
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People who do not give reasons for voting; 22%
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