Grade Range: 9-12Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities, Primary SourceDate Posted: 8/18/2008
Efforts to ensure the funding of modern, accurate, and secure voting machines is the focus of this part of the online exhibition entitled Vote: The Machinery of Democracy from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Students will learn about current computerized systems and the movement towards touch screen ballots that include redundant security and verification features.
Multimedia instruction, Museum education
In January 1917, members of the National Woman's Party (NWP) became the first people to picket th...
government, political science, politics, voting methods, American history, mailing ballot, democracy, optical scan, voting, enfranchisement, technology, ballot, United States history, History, voting equipment, US history, election, vote, touch screen, election day
A humorous and poignant fictional story, this book is also an eye-opening view of the women's suf...
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