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| Citizens who are eligable to vote after reaching the minimum age requirement. |
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| People who are registered to vote. |
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| What law was passed in 1993 designed to make it easier to vote? |
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| The motor-voter law. (1993) |
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| What year did the motor-voter law take effect? |
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| In 1995, the motor-voter law took effect. |
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| At the time when the Constitution was ratified, who was eligible to vote? |
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| Property owners or tax payers. |
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| About how many males (in percent) were able to by 1880? |
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| In what year was the federal law passed to require all members of the House be elected by districts? |
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| A requirement that citizens pass a literacy test in order to register to vote. |
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| A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote. |
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| A clause in registration laws allowing people who do not meet registration requirements to vote if they or their ancestors had voted before 1876. |
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| The practice of keeping blacks from voting in the southern states' primaries through arbitrary use of registration requirements and intimidation. |
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| In what year was the Grandfather clause declared unconstitutional? |
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| What year did the "White Primary" fall? |
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| What year did the Civil Rights Act pass? |
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| A government-printed ballot of uniform dimensions to be cast in secret that many states adopted around 1890 to reduce voting fraud associated with party-printed ballots cast in public. |
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| People who tend to participate in all forms of politics. |
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