1. Electoral College Voting Rights
a body of electors chosen by the voters who formally elect the president and vice president
Vs. Popular Vote
1. the vote for a U.S. presidential candidate made by the qualified voters, as opposed to that made by the electoral college. Compare electoral vote

3. http://www. archives. gov/federal-register/electoral-college/electors

5. Suffrage in Colonial Times

6. Suffrage in Colonial America
Benjamin Franklin believed that voting was a natural right. “Today a man owns a jackass worth fifty dollars and he is entitled to vote; but before the next election the jackass dies…Now gentlemen, pray inform me, in whom is the right of suffrage? In the man or in the jackass?”

7. …Continued Requirements to vote: 1. White male over the age of 21
2. Must be a landowner
3. Some made citizenship of the colony or England a requirement.
Barred Individuals
1. Servants
2.Paupers
3.Women (some New England towns allowed widows)
4. Non-White (African- Americans and Indians)
5. Religion
MA: must be member of Congregational Church
Catholics could not vote in 5 states
Jews could not vote in 4 states

8. Reconstruction (1865–77)
1.The Fifteenth Amendment, adopted in 1870, prevented states and the federal government from restricting suffrage based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude [i.e., slavery].“ 2. The Amendment was a Republican effort to ensure the rights of African Americans and create a voting base for the party in the South. 3. A combination of enduring racism, a severe economic depression, Northern exhaustion with Reconstruction, a desire for national unity, and a campaign of organized violence against African Americans and their white allies overturned Reconstruction.

9. Denying someone the Right to vote
Disenfranchisement
Denying someone the
Right to vote

11. 19th Amendment
Section 1: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Section 2: Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

12. Money Maker or Discrimination?
Florida is the first state to
impose poll the tax in 1889.
Poll tax varies on the state: (Miss. Charges $2)
24th Amendment ends the poll tax
(fraud, violence, White Primary) 1. 2. 3.
2. Poll Tax
2012 Disenfranchisement

14. Popular vote Versus the electoral college

15. Five Most Controversial Election in AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
The election in 1800 went to the House of Representatives after a voting mix-up left Thomas Jefferson and his vice presidential running mate Aaron Burr with the same number of electoral votes.
In 1800, it created a tied election in which both candidates were entitled to claim the presidency. Congress fixed this in 1804 with the 12th Amendment, which required that the president and vice president be voted on separately.

16. Second
Despite losing the popular and electoral votes, John Quincy Adams became president. The election was known to some as the “Corrupt Bargain” after Adams named Henry Clay, the speaker of the House of Representatives—and the man who convinced Congress to elect Adams—to serve as secretary of state.

17. Third-1876
Before the 2000 election, there was the election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden, governors of Ohio and New York, respectively.
When the votes had been counted, Tilden had won the popular vote and had a lead in the electoral vote. The 20 disputed electoral votes were ultimately awarded to Hayes after a bitter legal and political battle, giving him the victory over the Compromise of 1877.

18. Fourth -1888
Grover Cleveland, who was running for a second term against Benjamin Harrison, had 93,000 more popular votes after the election in Though he lost in the Electoral College 233 to 168, according to Harper’s Weekly.

21. 2000- Bush Vs. Gore- Fifth

22. Review Questions
1.What is the difference between the electoral college and the popular vote? How do the two processes work together?
2. During the suffrage period what were three requirements for voters? What individuals (3) were barred from voting during the suffrage period?
3. What was the importance of the 19th Amendment?
4. Why do you think the practice of poll tax was discriminatory?