1828
In what year did the act establishing ‘the Tuesday after the first Monday in November’ as the required date for presidential and vice-presidential elections pass?
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1845
1868
1898
1845
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Which of the following states that does not have ‘no-excuse’ absentee voting has passed legislation allowing voters who have contracted COVID-19 or fear contracting COVID-19 to vote absentee?
All of the above
Arkansas
Missouri
New Hampshire
Wyoming,
45 days
Florida,
10 days
Massachusetts, 11 days
Minnesota,
46 days
Which state has the longest early voting period, and how many days early does it begin?
Favors incumbents
Increases voter turnout
Leads to ill-informed voting
Decreases voter turnout
Which of the following is not usually given as a reason to oppose early voting?
According to the Census Bureau, what percentage of voters cast ballots by mail in the 2018 congressional elections?
28.3%
23.1%
24.6%
26.1%
33.2%
10.0%
16.6%
28.5%
According to the Census Bureau, what percentage voted ‘in-person before Election Day’ in the 2018 congressional elections?
Northern Mariana Islands, a typhoon
Louisiana, Hurricane Katrina
The Congressional Research Service found only one case of a postponement of a U.S. federal election. Where did this occur, and what was the reason for the postponement?
This quiz, provided by InsideSources.com, was created by Eric Sands, a member of the Ashbrook Center faculty and an associate professor of government at Berry College in Georgia.
Two Marines talk over their absentee ballots outside a bunker at battalion headquarters in Korea, Nov. 4, 1952
Associated Press photo
A 92-year-old woman fills out an absentee voting application outside the St. Louis Board of Election Commissioners on Aug. 3, 2020.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch photo
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All of the above
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Early voters cast their absentee ballots at the Minneapolis City Hall on Nov. 5, 2012.
Associated Press photo
Minnesota, 46 days
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A sign is placed on the grass at an early voting celebration on the first day of early voting in Miami-Dade County for the general election on Oct. 24, 2016.
Associated Press photo
Increases voter turnout
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A woman drops off her mail-in ballot at the Sacramento County Registrar of Voters office on May 30, 2018, in Sacramento, Calif.
Associated Press photo
23.1%
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Voters fill out their ballots at the Hamilton County Board of Elections on the first day of early voting on Oct. 10, 2018, in Cincinnati.
Associated Press photo
16.6%
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Damage at Saipan's airport after Super Typhoon Yutu hit the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands on Oct. 26, 2018.
Associated Press photo
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, because of a typhoon
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Tennessee,
a tornado
Texas,
Hurricane
Rita
AND EARLY VOTING
ABSENTEE
AND EARLY VOTING
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