1. Dates to Know
Sept. 19 Intro Quiz
Sept. 21 and 23 work on OTTW Project
Sept. 27 Elections Vocab. Quiz
Sept. 29 Gallery walk for OTTW Project
Oct. 5 Unit I Test
Oct. 7 Final OTTW PSA due

2. Sept. 15, 2016 1. CNN News 2. Diagnostic 3. Current Event
4. Disenfranchised – literacy tests and Harvard Video
5. Voter eligibility notes
6. Intro. Quiz Monday

3. Students will be able to:
Summarize the history of voting rights in the United States.
Identify and explain constitutional restrictions on the States’ power to set voting qualifications.
Identify the universal requirements for voting in the Unites States.

4. Voters and Voter Behavior

5. When the Constitution was ratified who could vote and who could not vote?

6. What is an electorate?
The potential voting population.

7. Extending Suffrage
What are the five stages of voter expansion? (who, where, what, how …) pages

8. What five restrictions are placed on states when setting voting qualifications?

9. What 3 qualifications must you be able to satisfy if you want to vote?
Age
Citizenship
Residency

10. For what reasons do most States require voter registration?
To prevent fraudulent voting
It gives election officials a list of those persons who are qualified to vote in an election

11. Who is denied the right to vote? Cannot Voters
People in mental institutions
Anyone who has been legally found to be mentally incompetent
People convicted of a serious crime
Some states don’t allow anyone who was dishonorably discharged from the armed forces to vote

12. “Your vote is your voice, Use it!”
Nonvoters (Greek for people who do not vote)

13. Nonvoters (idiots) Many people deliberately choose not to vote
They are convinced that is makes no real difference who wins a certain election
Some distrust politics and politicians
They lack political efficacy

14. Factors Affecting Turnout
Off Year Elections—Congressional elections that don’t take place during a Presidential Election year.
Ballot Fatigue—As a vote ballot increases in length, voters tend to run out of patience and may not be sure what they are voting on.
Inconvenient registration
“Time Zone Fallout”—East coast time zone can ruin the vote for the west coast.

15. Voters Nonvoters Voters v. Nonvoters More likely to… Younger than 35
Have higher income
Higher employment status
Better educated
More integrated into community
Long time & active resident
Belong to political party
Believe voting is important
Live in areas that have party competition
Nonvoters
More likely to…
Younger than 35
Unmarried
Unskilled
Live in rural south
Be a man

16. Gerrymandering
The practice of drawing electoral district lines in order to limit the voting strength of a particular group or party.

17. 15th Amendment
Declares the right to vote cannot be denied to any American citizen.
The amendment was intended to ensure that African American men could vote.
It did not include a means for enforcing it.