Examples of voter suppression in the following topics:
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- Many causes have been proposed for the decline in voting, including demographics, voter fatigue and voter suppression, among other things.
- Voter suppression instead attempts to reduce the number of voters who might vote against the candidate or proposition advocated by the suppressors.
- Similarly, voter suppression is a strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing people from exercising their right to vote .
- Voter suppression instead attempts to reduce the number of voters who might vote against the candidate or proposition advocated by the suppressors.
- This suppression can be in the form of unfair tests or requirements to vote.
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- For a large part of US history Black voters were blocked from voting, either directly or through political practices that targeted Black voters indirectly.
- Today, the average participation of African American voters is still somewhat lower than white voters, but there is great variety within these voting patterns.
- While the fifteenth amendment provided legal protection for voting rights based on race, during the Jim Crow era, politicians created new institutions to suppress the vote of Black residents.
- States then began to pass official voter suppression legislation.
- During the early parts of the 1900s, the NAACP brought forward several successful cases to challenge state voter suppression laws.
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- In the early years the NAACP campaigned vigorously against lynching, voter suppression laws, for education rights, and blocked the nomination of a segregationist Supreme Court Judge.
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- Institutional factors have a significant impact on voter turnout.
- Conversely, adding barriers, such as a separate registration process, can suppress turnout.
- Compulsory voting ensures a large voter turnout.
- Any compulsion affects the freedom of an individual, and the fining of recalcitrant non-voters is an additional impact on a potential recalcitrant voter.
- In the United States and most Latin American nations, voters must go through separate voter registration procedures before they are allowed to vote.
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- Generally, elections consist of voters casting ballots at polling places on a scheduled election day .
- Strictly majoritarian systems are rare in modern democracies due to their tendency for suppressing minority views.
- Most national elections require that voters are citizens, and many local elections require proof of local residency to vote.
- Many electoral systems require voters to cast ballots at official, regulated polling places.
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- High voter turnout is often considered to be desirable, though among political scientists and economists specialising in public choice, the issue is still debated.
- In developed countries, non-voters tend to be concentrated in particular demographic and socioeconomic groups, especially the young and the poor.
- Voter turnout varies considerably between countries.
- Voters lining up outside a Baghdad polling station during the 2005 Iraqi election.
- Voter turnout was considered high despite widespread concerns of violence.
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- In 1993, Congress passed the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, also known as the "motor voter" law, allowing citizens to register at motor vehicle and social service offices.
- "Motor voter's" success in increasing the ranks of registered voters differs by state depending on how well the program is publicized and executed.
- Voter registration also has increased as a result of online registration.
- RTV registered over 2 million new voters in 1992, 80% of whom cast a ballot, and signed up over 2.5 million voters in 2008.
- Voter turnout in presidential elections is generally higher than for lower-level contests; usually more than half the eligible voters cast a ballot .
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- Due to a decrease in party identification, the personal traits of candidates have become an influential factor in voters' decisions.
- The personal traits of candidates have become an influential factor in voters' decisions during recent elections.
- Issue voting can also be problematic when candidates' stances differ drastically from those of voters.
- Many candidates utilize demographic factors to appeal to voters.
- Other candidates appeal to voters through shared religious affiliations.
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- In "issue voting," voters cast their vote based primarily on specific political issues .
- A voter does not need to have an in-depth understanding of every issue or know how a candidate stands on every issue, rather a voter should have a sense of which candidate he or she agrees with the most.
- Voters use many different tactics to rationalize their view on a particular issue.
- Voters must often settle for the candidate whose stances are closest to their own.
- Some voters cast their ballots according to specific policy issues, for example, education reform.
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- Voter turnout varies considerably between countries.
- Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election.
- There are difficulties in measuring both the numerator, the number of voters who cast votes, and the denominator, the number of voters eligible to vote.
- Not all voters who arrive at the polls necessarily cast ballots.
- Voter turnout varies considerably between countries.