voter drives
Ballot participation efforts
Voter drives are organized efforts to register new voters or encourage voter turnout, typically conducted by political campaigns, advocacy groups, or community organizations.
The term usually refers to voter registration drives, where volunteers set up tables at public events or go door-to-door: The league conducted voter drives on college campuses.
Get-out-the-vote drives focus on mobilizing already-registered voters to cast ballots.
- registrationFormal recording of participation
- ballotsVoting forms
- mail-in ballotsVotes submitted through post
- pollingSystematic opinion gathering
- polling placesDesignated voting locations
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voter drivesvoter suppression
Tactics discouraging ballot access
voter intimidation · poll taxes · literacy tests · disenfranchisement · Jim Crow laws
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