voting rights
Ballot box access
Voting rights are the legal entitlements that allow citizens to participate in elections.
The term often appears in discussions of who can vote and what barriers exist: The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed discriminatory practices.
Debates over voting rights typically concern access—voter ID laws, registration requirements, polling place availability—and who benefits or loses from such rules.
- nineteenthPosition after eighteen
- voter registrationSigning up for elections
- mail-in ballotsVotes submitted through post
- polling stationsDesignated ballot-casting sites
- Election DayScheduled voting occasion
suffrage · enfranchisement · fifteenth · human rights · John Lewis · grassroots campaigns · civic duty · absentee ballots · constitutional amendments · civil rights movement · freedom of speech · ballot · preclearance · universal suffrage · poll · equal protection · women's suffrage · citizen
- women's contributionssuffrage, feminism, civil rights, equal pay, nursing
- civil rightsequal protection, equal rights, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, civil liberties
- women's rightssuffrage movement, women's suffrage, women's rights, gender equality, feminism
- Legal conceptshuman rights, civil rights, legal duties, duty of care, contracts
- legal rightslegal rights, constitutional rights, fundamental rights, Miranda rights, Bill of Rights
- Roman citizenshipfreedmen, suffrage, naturalization, freeborn, citizenship rights
voting rightsdisenfranchisement
Removal of voting rights
voter suppression · disfranchisement · poll taxes · literacy tests · voter purges
voting rightsautocracy
Rule by one
dictatorship · authoritarianism · tyranny · totalitarianism · despotism