Identify and compare the ways that voter turnout can be measured. Which is better for measuring voting participation? Why?
What will be an ideal response?
Voter turnout is defined as the percentage of registered voters that turn out to vote. Voter turnout can be measured either as the percentage of registered voters who vote or as the percentage of voting-age population who vote. The best measure is the latter because it is based on a percentage of all people that are eligible to vote, whereas voter turnout of registered voters is based on only those who are registered, which is only 80 percent of those who are eligible.
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The 1960s spurred a revolution of sorts in the development of state legislatures to reach the goal of “one person, one vote,” which requires
a. all states to keep voting registration and voting records for a set amount of time. b. the democratization of legislative apportionment. c. states to hold free and unfettered elections on a regular basis. d. states with a history of discrimination to submit changes to their electoral system to the FEC. e. all legislators to live in the district from which they were elected.
Following the Citizens United decision and several other related court decisions and rule changes, ______ was/were formed to raise money independently of campaigns and candidates
A) the Federal Election Commission B) 503(c) groups C) 501(c)4 groups D) 527 organizations E) super PACs