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Starter: How many states added voting restrictions for the first time in a presidential election in 2016?
1.How accurate was your prediction?
2.How surprising is this map?
3.What is the big story this map tells?
4.What geographical patterns do you see in this map?
5.Why is that?
6.Is voter suppression a smart long-term strategy for a political party?
7.Although there have been almost zero examples of voter fraud over the past decade, these restrictions are passed in the name of stopping voter fraud. What do you think these laws are really trying to stop?
8.What groups of citizens are these voting restrictions mostly geared towards?
9.Explain your opinion of state laws passed to limit one of the most fundamental rights of citizens.
10.Why would any political party try to limit voting?
11.Do you think that most people in the 14 states that have made it harder to vote are aware that their states are limiting people's voting rights?
12.How much do you think this affected the 2016 presidential election?
13.How much impact do you think this will have on the 2018 midterm elections?
Review
How do political culture, demographics, and dynamic social and personal change shape citizen beliefs about government, and how are those beliefs measured? In your notes, complete a chart like the one below to gather details to answer that question.
Word of the Day: suffrage/franchise
- Define it
- Use an example
- Who in the room has gained suffrage?
- What types of people are disenfranchised today?
Expansion of Voting Rights
Federal laws and constitutional amendments have eliminated restrictions on the right to vote, thus dramatically expanding the American electorate. However, some barriers to voting remain.
Complete your portion of the chart here to track voting rights through history.
Complete your portion of the chart here to track voting rights through history.
Closer: How do changes to the requirements to vote illustrate a growing power of the federal government? How have states recently taken back some of that power?
- Make a claim here!
- Support your claim with TWO pieces of accurate and relevant information.
- Use reasoning to explain why your evidence supports your claim.
- Respond to an opposing or alternative perspective.
Next class: Voter Turnout and Voter Choice