PSC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Model Theory, Voting Rights Act Of 1965, Fifteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
17 Dec 2019
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Psc 101-008 chapter 10 notes - voting, campaigns, & elections. Elections are numerous and frequent, multiple ballots too. Ballot fatigue - exhaustion of voter interest and knowledge in elections caused by election frequency and the length/complexity of ballots. States in charge of elections (more variation, mistakes) * first-past-the-post wins(referring to electoral) - who wins most votes(plurality), not majority aka single-member plurality election. Analyze the importance of political participation in elections: People participate by coting, donating time/money, posting signs. For elections to be democratic, individuals must participate and. *franchise - the legal right to vote (suffrage) have the same opportunity to vote. White males - property and religion barriers fell by 1829. Blacks- took civil war to get black suffrage, 15th amendment for all black males, limitations against blacks (poll taxes, literacy tests) were finally removed in the 1960s with the voting. Young people - 26th amendment in 1971 for 18/20 yr olds.
