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Electorate
The group of Americans who vote for the president and other offices once every four years
Franchise
The right to vote
Suffrage
Qualifications for voting
Fifteenth Amendment
1870 - African American males got the right to vote
Nineteenth Amendment
1920 - Established women’s suffrage
Twenty-Third Amendment
1961 - DC appoints electors no more than however many the least populous state has
Twenty-Fourth Amendment
1962 - Outlawed poll taxes
Twenty-Sixth Amendment
1971 - Gave citizens 18 and older the right to vote
Grandfather clause
Allowed states to recognize voters as they would have recognized their grandfather
White Primary
Only white people could vote
Seventeenth Amendment
1913 - Required popular elections for senators
1957 Civil Rights Act
Established the US office of Civil Rights
1964 Civil Rights Act
Addressed voting
1965 Voting Rights Act
Outlawed literacy tests and put states with low voter turnouts under scrutiny
Preclearance Provision
Provision of Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act - put states that tried to invent legal loopholes under scrutiny - OUTLAWED
Precincts
Geographic areas of 500-1000 voters who vote at a specific polling place
Wards
Divisions of counties, cities, and towns
National Voter Registration Act (NVRA)/Motor-Voter Law
1993 - requires states to allow citizens to register at state-run agencies
Help America Vote Act (HAVA)
2002 - electronic voting systems, helped prevent voter fraud, helped disabled voters
Australian Ballot
Current US ballot
Provisional ballots
Given and put aside when not sure about registration
Political efficacy
The sense that your vote makes a difference
Linkage institutions
Channels that connect the people and government
War chest
An amount of funds that an established or popular candidate may already have going into an election
National Chairperson
Chief strategist and spokesperson of a party - nongovernmental
McGovern-Fraser Commission
Created by the Democratic Party in response to the 1968 DNC. Made sure that minorities, women, and young voters were represented.
Superdelegates
High-ranking delegates who aren’t beholden to state primary votes - DNC
Free-rider problem
Groups that push for collective benefits have free riders that limit the potential of the group
Iron triangles
Bonds among an agency, a congressional committee, and an interest group
Issue networks
collections with similar goals that support specific issues - break up once their concern is resolved
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