2. Essential Question
What are the procedures for voting?

3. Qualifications of Voting
18 years old
a US citizen
Registered to vote
Resident of voting district

4. Vocabulary
Precinct: a voting district

5. Meet registration deadline Ways to register:
Registering to Vote
Meet registration deadline
Ways to register:
in person
by mail
when you get your driver’s license through the Motor Voter bill
Be able to prove citizenship, address, and age

6. Steps in Voting Go to a polling place located in your precinct
Check in with the clerk
- sign in and they verify registration
Go to a challenger’s table who double checks the info
Go to the voting booth

7. Vocabulary
Polling Place: the location in a precinct where people vote

8. Voting Methods Optical scan Electronic Touch Screen
Voters fill in ovals with a #2 pencil
Easy for voters to use, but scanning equipment is expensive
Electronic Touch Screen
Voters simply touch who they want on a computer screen, similar to an ATM machine
Easy to use
Machinery is expensive and there is no paper trail

9. Voting Methods Punch Card
Voters insert cards into clipboard size devices
Punch a hole next to their choice
Tough to read if holes are not punched correctly
“Butterfly” ballots confusing to read

10. Voting Methods Lever machines
Simply push down lever of candidate you want
Very simple to use
Machines are expensive, heavy, old, and no longer manufactured
No paper trail

11. Voting Methods Paper ballot Voters mark by hand who they want
Very cheap method
Counting is slow

12. What else on the ballot ? (Video)

13. Vocabulary
Canvassing Board: the official body that counts votes and certifies the winner

14. If you can’t make it to the polls, you can vote an absentee ballot
If you can’t make it to the polls, you can vote an absentee ballot. You get the ballot early and return it by mail.

15. Vocabulary
Early Voting: a provision that allows a person to vote in person for a specified period of time prior to Election day

16. Steps to Voting
When the polls close, the returns (final results) are taken to the board of elections where they are recounted.
Media often try to predict the final results through exit polls - asking people how they voted as they leave the polls

17. Why People Don’t Vote Did not register Don’t meet the requirements
Don’t like the candidates
Apathy-just don’t care
Didn’t research the issues
Work schedule

18. Voter ID laws (Video)

19. Who Typically Votes
All people eligible to vote are called the electorate
Those who do vote usually are more educated, middle-aged, and with higher incomes

20. Sources of Information to Help You Make an Informed Choice
Newspapers TV
Radio
Internet
Voter info pamphlets
From the parties themselves
Interest groups

21. Questions to ask yourself when you do vote?
Does the candidate stand for the things I think are important?
Is the candidate honest and reliable?
Does the candidate have any experience?
Will they be effective?
Does the candidate have a shot at winning?

22. Why Should You Vote? You can chose your leaders
You can voice your opinion on the government
You can vote on key issues

23. Vocabulary
Recall: the procedure by which an elected official may be removed from office by popular vote

24. Can you rig the US presidential election? (Video)

25. Index Card Assignment Go to our class website
Open up Chapter 18 Practice Test
Choose 10 questions that you do not know the answer
Look up the answer to those questions
Write the question on one side of the card and the answer on the other side
Hand in for grade on Friday!

26. Review Question:
Chapter 18 : Lesson 4
Read pages and answer Review Questions on page 565. Hand in Google Class Room.