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voting-age population
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citizens who are eligible to vote after reaching the minumum age requirement
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registered voters
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people who are registered to vote
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literacy test
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a requirement that citizens show that they can read before registering to vote
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poll tax
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a requiremnet that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote
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grandfather clause
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a clause in registration laws allowing people who do not meet registration requirements to vote if they or their ancestors had voted before 1867
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white primary
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the practice of keeping blacks from voting in the southern states' primaries through arbitrary use fo registration requirements and intimidation
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Australian ballot
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a government-printed ballot of uniform dimensions to be cast in secret that many states adopted aroung 1890 to reduce voting fraud associated with party-printed ballots cast in public
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activists
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people who tend to participate in all froms of politics
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