The _______________ Requirement Was Included in the Voting Rights Act

question 3

Multiple Choice

The _______________ requirement was included in the Voting Rights Act to ensure that states that had previously restricted the political participation of minorities could not use redistricting for partisan gain and against the interest of minority groups.

• A) redistricting
• B) reapportionment
• C) preclearance
• D) external validation

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Definitions:

Standard Deviations

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values from the average.

Standard Deviation

An indicator of the degree of variation or spread within a collection of numbers.

Variability

The extent to which data points in a data set differ from each other and from the mean.

Range

The difference between the highest and lowest values in a data set.