Instructions: Use this article (LINK) to answer the questions below

| 1. What are the main 3 categories that voters in this study were grouped into? | 1) people who almost always vote 2) people who sometimes vote 3) people who rarely or never vote. | | --- | --- | | 1. Which educational level votes the least? | High School or Less | | 1. Summarize JeMare Williams’s voting experience. What was the problem? | JeMare had issues with getting identification, having to fill out provisional ballots. His job also makes it hard for him to vote and lines are LONG | | 1. What conclusion(s) can you make about the top 3 reasons given as barriers to voting? | 1. Deadline 2. Work 3. Polling Location (Be that difficulties getting to location and the polling line) | | 1. How does Christopher McDonald’s experience discourage future voting? | He got a hostile experience for his first time that didn’t encourage him to revote, also unclear guidance was provided further hurting his revoting chances. | | 1. Many Americans have difficulties in ‘trusting the system.’ According to the study, why don’t people trust the system? | They don’t have faith in the system and are unconfident in the abilities of the government to change by their vote | | 1. What was Andrea Johnson’s reason for not voting? Do you believe her method will be effective? | She thinks that not voting will send a message to the losing side. This method seems ineffective and potentially idiotic as it requires a side that you want to win or to get a message, but you abstain from helping that side win | | 1. The conclusion to this article makes a strong statement. What is that statement, and do you agree? Explain why or why not. | It concludes with a “voting out of desperation” idea, I think it’s more or less true. I say this because the faith in the system is at a low point and a lot of people just want something to change, so people are voting out of a desperate hope that something will be different. |