Chapter 9

It is very clear that the Americans who have the highest voter turnout are those

Reported voter turnout _____ as age _____.

The Americans who turn out to vote at the lowest rate are

Reported voter turnout _____ as education _____.

The low rates of voter turnout for Hispanic and Asian American immigrants are largely due to the fact that they

Voter turnout for local elections is

A. Much greater than for presidential elections.

B. Much less than for presidential elections.

C. Slightly greater than for presidential elections.

D. Slightly less than for presidential elections.

E. About the same as for presidential elections

All of the following statements about low voter turnout are true except

A. It may signal apathy about our political system.

B. It is much more common in most other countries than in the United States.

C. It may simply signal satisfaction with the status quo.

D. It results in the election of candidates who have received the votes of a small part of the voting-age population.

E. Recent decreases in turnout may be due to the growth in the number of people ineligible to vote, particularly recent immigrants.

The group that tends to be overrepresented in the electorate is

The explanations for low voter turnout in the United States include all of the following except

A. The media tend to provide more news about who's ahead in the polls.

B. The increase in mail-in and Internet voting.

C. The difficulty of registering to vote.

D. Most of the information voters have heard by the time they vote is negative.

E. People rationally decide not to obtain information needed to

The lack of incentive for voters to obtain costly information about issues and candidates is known as the

The rational-ignorance effect refers to

A. Candidates who attempt to mislead voters who are too rational to be duped by such a tactic.

B. Individuals who have not taken the voter information test administered by many states.

C. The effect campaigns have on a highly educated populace.

D. The act of voting even when your vote is unlikely to affect the outcome.

E. The lack of incentive for voters to obtain important information about issues and candidates.

In the years following the adoption of the Constitution, many states placed legal restrictions on the right to vote because of the

A. Belief that voters should own property because many government decisions affect property.

B. Belief in the South that if poor whites could vote, they might abolish slavery.

C. Belief that woman's suffrage would injure the traditional family.

D. Fear of an aristocratic form of government.

E. Fear of the voting power of recent immigrants.

The Australian ballot

A. Is no longer used in the United States because it does not allow a secret ballot to be cast.

B. Is an attempt to reduce partisan voting by not allowing candidates to list their party.

C. Is a form of balloting that has been disallowed in the United States because it is discriminatory.

D. Is secret and is prepared, distributed, and tabulated by government officials.

E. Was subject to great suspicion because it was a foreign innovation.

A ballot that is secret and is prepared, distributed, and tabulated by government officials in order to make it harder to pressure people to change their votes is known as a(n)

A party-column ballot is a form of general election ballot

A. That is used by only a few states today.

B. That focuses attention on the office instead of the party.

C. In which the candidates are arranged in one column under their respective party.

D. That was held to be unconstitutional in 1948.

E. In which all candidates for each elective office are grouped under the title of the office.

The number of members each state will have in the Electoral College

A. Cannot exceed fifty members.

B. Cannot be changed without a Constitutional amendment.

C. Changes every four years.

D. Is determined by the number of representatives and senators a state has in Congress.

E. Is identical so that each state plays an equal role in selecting the president.

Initiative is a form of direct democracy in which citizens can

A. Bypass the legislative process.

B. Revoke the actions of legislatures.

C. Remove elected officials from office.

D. Vote for party nominees in primaries.

E. Cast their ballot by mail or by absentee ballot.

In a recall election, voters can

A. Bypass the legislative process.

B. Revoke the actions of legislatures.

C. Remove elected officials from office.

D. Vote for party nominees in primaries.

E. Veto laws passed by the legislature.

Women could vote in all states with the ratification of the __ Amendment in 1920.

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