| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Activists | 1/9 population (highly educated, high incomes, middle-aged) |
| Voting Specialists | vote not much else (little schooling and income, older) |
| Campaigners | vote, inovlved in compaign activities (educated, strong position and party affiliation) |
| Communalists | nonpartisan, join organizations to handle local problems (contact local officials) |
| Parochial participants | don't vote, will contact local officials about specific personal problems |
| Causes of Higher Participation | college, above 45 years old, more religious involvement, blacks over whites if same socioeconomic status |
| Causes of Lower Voting | decline in popular interest, decline in party competitiveness, vote buying and fraudulent counts in past |
| more youth, AA, and other minorities means... | lower percentage of voters who are registered to vote |
| Difference between US and other countries | party stregth, automatic registration, compuslory voting laws |
| Votes in US skewed towards... | higher status (professionl, managerial, white-collar occupations) |
| motor-voter law | requires states to allow people to register to vote when applying for dirver's licenses |
| 15th Amendment | right to vote can't be denied based on race |
| Ways around 15th Amendment | literacy test, poll tax, grandfather clause, still white primary elections |
| 1965 Voting Rights Act | suspended literacy tests; federal examiners order registration of blacks where fewer than 1/2 population registered; criminal penalties for interfereing with right to vote |
| 19th Amendment | women right to vote 1920 |
| Voting Rights Act 1970 | 18 years old right to vote in federal elections (not state elections) |
| 26th Amendment | anyone between 18 and 21 can cast ballots |
| Australian ballot | ballots- uniform size and shape, cast in private |
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