Gov: Chapter 6 vocab
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- Voter apathy
- Lack of interest among citzenry in voting
- Ineligible electorate
- Citizens disqualified from voting (too young, prison)
- Registered voters
- Citizens registered to vote
- Literacy test
- Requirement for voters to be able to read; disenfranchised
- Poll tax
- Proof of tax payment when voting; disenfranchised blacks
- White primaries
- Southern methods to keep blacks from voting in primaries (Democratic)
- Granfather clause
- To automatically qualify to vote, grandparent must have voted; disenfranchised balcks
- 15th amendment
- Made it illegal to exclude potential voters based on race
- 19th amendment
- Extended vote to women
- Voting Rights Act (1970)
- Gave 18-year-olds the right to vote in federal elections
- 26th amendment
- Gave 18-year-olds the right to vote in all US elections
- Australian ballot
- Document gov't-printed, uniform size, cast in secret
- Inactives
- Avoid all forms of political participation
- Voting specialists
- Restrict political participation to voting in elections
- Campaigners
- Vote in elections and get involved in campaigns
- Communalists
- Join organizations and participate in politics, but no partisan campaigns
- Parochial participants
- Avoid elections and civic organizations, but contact officials regarding specific problems
- Compelte activist
- Take part in all forms of political activity
- Activist
- Individual actively promotes political party, philosophy, or issue he/she cares personally about
- Motor-voter bill
- Requires states to allow voter registration by mail, when applying for driver's license, and at some state offices for the disabled/poor
- Voting-age population
- Cizens eligible to vote after reaching mininum age requirement