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| citizens who are eligible to vote after reaching the minimum age requirement. |
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| people who are registered to vote |
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| a requirement that citizens show that they can read before registering to vote. |
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| a requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote. |
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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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| the practice of keeping blacks from voting in the southern states' primaries through arbitrary use of registration requirements and intimidation. |
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| a government-printed ballot of uniform dimensions to be cast in secret that many states adopted around 1890 to reduce voting fraud associated with party-printed ballots cast in public. |
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| people who tend to participate in all forms of politics |
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