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| What percentage of people vote in European elections? American elections? |
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| What fraction of the voting age population is registered to vote? |
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| Citizens who are eligible to vote after reaching the minimum age requirement. |
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| People who are registered to vote. |
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| Where is voting registration done for you by the gov't? |
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| Who was the president when voting included virtually all white male adults? |
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| When was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified? |
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| Which Amendment said that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States of by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of s |
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| A requirement that citizens pass a literacy test in order to register to vote. |
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| Requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote. |
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| A clause in registration laws allowing people who do not meet the requirements to vote if they or their ancestors had voted before 1876. |
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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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| The passage of the Voting Rights Act. |
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When was the voting rights act passed? |
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| Who said, "community service is viewed as good, and political service is viewed as disreputable.”? |
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| Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota. |
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| A gov't-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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| What does VAP stand for? VEP? |
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Voting age population; voting eligible population. |
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| People who tend to participate in all forms of politics. |
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| People who vote but do little else are referred to as? |
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| People who vote as well as get involved with campaign activities. |
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| People who do not vote and stat out of campaigns but will contact local officials about personal problems. |
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| A political party exists in what 3 areas? |
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Social, economical, and political. |
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| What year was the voting Rights Act passed? |
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| What was the first political party? |
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| Jeffersonian Republicans. |
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| What was the second party to be established? |
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| Did the founders like or dislike the parties? |
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| What is a political party? |
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A group that seeks to elect candidates to public office by supplying them with a "party ID" by which they are known to the electorate. |
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| What does the ideological party value most? |
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| What is a political machine. |
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| A party organization that recruits its members by the use of tangible incentives and that is characterized by a high degree of leadership control over member activities. |
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| Who was the first presidential nominee to make an acceptance speech at the party convention? |
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| Who was the only person nominated for prez 4 times by a major party? |
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