Votes of Confidence by Jeff Fleischer

Author:Jeff Fleischer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, Young Adult Nonfiction, Young Adults, Social Studies, Politics, Government, Social Topics, Values, Virtues, History, Historical, United States, U.S. History, American Government, ballot measures, Bill of Rights, Branches of Government, Campaign, Candidates, Congress, Constitution, Constitutional Amendments, Debates, Democracy, Democrats, Election day, Elections, Electoral College, Executive Branch, Fake News, Founding Fathers, Fund-raising, Gerrymandering, History & Government, House of Representatives, Impeachment, Jeff Fleischer, Judiciary, Legislation, local government, Making Laws, midterm elections, Political Activism, Political Fundraising, Political parties, poll, Polling, President, presidential debate, Primaries, Primary elections, redistricting, Republic, Republicans, Running for Office, Senate, Supreme Court, term limits, The Capitol, Third Parties, two-party system, Volunteering, Vote, voter fraud, Voter Registration, Voter Suppression, Voting, Washington, DC
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Published: 2019-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

Voting (with Confidence)

By now you know a bit more about the United States government, the parties and officials who represent it, and the process for how elections work. The next step is to actually take part in those elections, starting with registering to vote, learning about who and what you can vote for or against, and then actually getting out and doing it.

Section I

Voter Registration

If you’re a natural-born citizen of the United States, you automatically become eligible to vote on your eighteenth birthday. If you move here and become a naturalized citizen, you are eligible as soon as that citizenship becomes official, as long as you are eighteen or older. Some states even let you vote earlier than your birthday (in a primary, for example), as long as you’ll be eighteen by Election Day in November.

Simply being eligible, though, doesn’t mean you can automatically vote. You still need to register. Because states control voting, the procedure can be a little different depending on where you live.

North Dakota is the only state where you don’t always need to register. The state got rid of required registration in 1951, but voters still have to bring an ID and sign in at their local precinct on Election Day. And even in North Dakota, some parts of the state require registration, while others don’t.

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