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voting voting
voting method of registering collective approval or disapproval of a person or a proposal. The term generally refers to the process by which citizens choose candidates for public office or decide political questions submitted to them. However, it may also describe the formal recording of opinion of... Read more
voting machine voting machine
voting machine instrument for recording and counting votes. The voting machine itself is generally positioned in a booth, often closed off by a curtain to assure secrecy for the voter. In the case of older mechanical voting machines, when a voter enters the booth and closes the curtain by means of... Read more
suffragette suffragette
suffragettes were feminists who adopted militant methods to campaign for the parliamentary vote for women. Though by far the most famous members of the women's movement before 1914, their contribution to winning the vote has been much diminished by modern scholarship.The term... Read more
Nineteenth Amendment Nineteenth Amendment
NINETEENTH AMENDMENT The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: 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. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate... Read more
United States v. Reese United States v. Reese
Reese, United States v., 92 U.S. 214 (1876), argued 13–14 Jan. 1875, decided 27 Mar. 1876 by vote of 8 to 1; Waite for the Court, Clifford concurring, Hunt in dissent. This was the Supreme Court's first voting rights case under the Fifteenth Amendment and the Enforcement Act of 1870. A... Read more
electoral college electoral college
electoral college in U.S. government, the body of electors that chooses the president and vice president. The Constitution, in Article 2, Section 1, provides: "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of... Read more
Church of England Church of England
Church of England the established church of England and the mother church of the Anglican Communion . Organization and Doctrine The clergy of the church are of three ancient orders: deacons, priests, and bishops. Except for the celebration of the mass and giving absolution, deacons have the same... Read more
Twenty-Sixth Amendment Twenty-Sixth Amendment
Twenty-Sixth Amendment The Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which was ratified in 1971, lowered the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen years of age. Section One of the Amendment states "the right of citizens of the United States, who are 18 years of age or older, to vote,... Read more
Absentee Voting Absentee Voting
ABSENTEE VOTING Participation in an election by qualified voters who are permitted to mail in their ballots. The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (42 U.S.C.A. Read more
ostracism ostracism
ostracism , ancient Athenian method of banishing a public figure. It was introduced after the fall of the family of Pisistratus . Each year the assembly took a preliminary vote to decide whether a vote of ostracism should be held. If a majority approved holding an ostracism, a day was set for the... Read more

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