1. Chapter 18 : Lesson 2 Influences on Voters

2. Essential Question
How do personal backgrounds, party loyalty, candidate image, and campaign issues influence voters?

3. Elections and Voting Behavior

4. Voter Turnout
From Government in America, 13th edition.

5. Four kinds of elections
1. Primary elections: voters select party nominees
2. General elections: contested between nominees of each party
3. Elections on specific policy questions for legislation—recently become more common in some states

6. 4. Midterm Election: a Congressional election that takes place halfway through the president’s term in office

7. Legislative Referendum: a special election in which the legislature refers a measure to the voters for their approval

8. Popular Referendum: a special election in which voters can vote to approve or repeal the laws passed by the legislature

9. Initiative: a method by which citizens propose a constitutional law or amendment

10. Voter Qualifications
Constitution does note give the Federal Government the power to set suffrage qualifications (left to the states) but does put four restrictions on how states use that power:
15th Amendment: RACE
19th Amendment: GENDER
24th Amendment: MONEY
26th Amendment: AGE

11. Qualifications continued….
Citizenship
Residence
Age
Registration
DENIED….
mental institutions (50 states),
felonies (KY/VA)

12. Cross – pressured voter : a voter who is caught between conflicting elements in his or her identity

13. Review Question:
Chapter 18 : Lesson 2
Read pages and answer Review Questions on page 551. Hand in Google Class Room.