Elections

Fourth assignment

Final Exam

For next time, 

• Mike Madrid, The Latino Century: How America's Largest Minority Is Transforming Democracy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014), EXCERPTS ON CANVAS.
• Malcolm X, “The Ballot or the Bullet”  http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/malcolm_x_ballot.html

Election Laws -- THE UNITED STATES RUNS ELECTIONS AT THE STATE AND LOCAL LEVEL.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A NATIONAL BALLOT. 

Units

• 50 states
• 3144 counties
• 87,693 other local governments
• 176,933 election precincts
• About 519,000 elected officials

Federal laws

• 15th Amendment -- right to vote, by race
• 19th Amendment -- women's suffrage
• 23d Amendment -- DC presidential voting
• 24th Amendment -- poll taxes
• 26th Amendment --  18-year-old vote
• Voting Rights  Act

State laws

• Voter registration deadlines
• Voter identification laws
• Convenience Voting (graph)
• Felon voting rights:

Turnout: VAP and VEP

• Historical
• Demographics
• Youth
• By state

Districts (Lowi, 323)

• A gerrymandering game