Voting Flashcards
Affects of voter turnout
- political culture - states w/ more moralistic political culture have more voters
- demographics - higher turnout rates among whites, educated, higher income, black people have the highest turnout in minorities
-latino rates are low but gradually increasing - party competition - states with a dominant party have lower voter turnout bc they get discouraged
- mobilization efforts - people contaced by party significantly more likely to vote
- legal rules and restrictions
- dynamic campaign/candidates
contined
Methods of increasing voter turnout
- Hold state and local elections at the same time as presidential election
- same-day or automatic registration
- increase voter education efforts
- early voting
- number of polling places
- online/remote voting
Franchise
both the act of voting and right to vote
When were women and black men allowed to vote?
women - 19th amendment (1920)
black men - 15th amendment (1870)
ways to decrease voter turnout
- poll tax
- the white-primary
- long-term residency
- prohibition of property owners from voting
- literacy tests
white-primary
implemented response to 1921 supreme court decision stating that primary elections were “in no real sense part of the manner of holding election”
-helped prohibit non-white people from voting
voting rights act 1965
activism from civil rights organizations challenged restictions for non-white voters
requirements for voting in texas
- U.S. Citizen
- resident in Tx for at least 30 days
- 18 yrs old +
- registered to vote
cannot vote if:
- declared mentally unfit
- convicted of a felony
Challenges to voter id laws
Numerous; too many to count
exceptions to voter id requierements
-religious objections to being photographed
- have a reasonable impediment
- do not have id as a result of a natual disaster
- are indigent
- people who have confidential listing
Mail-in ballots
- dont increase fraud
- dont increase turnout
- doesnt increase turnout for one party over another
