Tues day 11/2

Tuesday 11/2

Agenda1. Warm-Up #10 (on the top

of your notes)2. Notes: Voting3. California Elections4. Cast Your Vote!

Homework

• Study for Quiz #4 on Thursday/Friday

On your warm-up, label the following on your political ideology spectrum

Fidel CastroSenator John McCain

President Barack Obama

John Lee

Billy Bob

Jenny “Smiley” Rojas

Voters

and voter behavior

The right to vote has been a long fightIn the past, local governments set up poll taxes and literacy tests to deter certain people from voting

Gerrymandering

The practice of re-drawing district boundaries to disenfranchise African American voters influence the outcome of an election

Voting rights were only extended to white males, age 21+, who owned property

What about women?

What about 18 year olds who were fighting our wars?

What if you didn’t own land?

How about those who were not white?

Using the “Voting” worksheet, fill in your chart describing landmark years for voting rights

1840 Jacksonian Democracy extended the right to vote to all white males 21+ even if they did not own property

By 1971, everyone over the age of 18 had the right to vote

With only a few exceptions…

Illegal aliens

Non-registered voters

Mental patients

Dishonorably discharged soldiers

Absentee Ballot

If you are away from your registered location, you may mail in your ballot

Vote BehaviorCollege graduates, high-income individuals, religious Christians and Southern states tend to vote Republican

Low and middle income, educated, liberal, and urban individuals tend to vote Democrat

Voting as a PrivilegeIn other countries, people are literally dying for the privilege to vote

Too bad this election is rigged

and my vote won’t count…

The only vote that counts is mine and I vote for

myself!

Non-VotersBut in the land of the free, some people have become too comfortable and voting is a burden

Who needs to vote when you look like

me? I wonder what’s on TV tonight…

So please, vote!

California Elections• Governor

– Meg Whitman (R) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VekQ1F9J-C8– Jerry Brown (D) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEPlZYp5-Pk

• U.S. Senate– Barbara Boxer (D) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx6J2RfzuDw\– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfosSjWLMEE– Carly Fiorina (R) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j4RF6cx0SY– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRY7wBuCcBY

• California Initiatives – Prop 19 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUKbj5_HM1U

– Prop 21 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gx7M9pwUbs

– Prop 23 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnE6j7fwWgM

Get into groups of 3 or less

1. Read about each candidate or proposition2. Discuss with your group reasons why you

would or would not vote for each item3. In your notes, describe arguments for and

against each item4. At the end of the period, you will have the

chance to cast your vote