Historical clue formulations

• Yea or nay — 2026-06-11
• Participate in a blindside on "Survivor," say — 2025-09-24
• Primary action — 2025-08-15
• D.C.'s lack in Congress — 2024-06-07
• Primary directive — 2024-03-22
• Word with straw or swing — 2024-01-14
• "Survivor" climax — 2024-01-12
• November imperative — 2023-08-02
• Election Day exhortation — 2023-05-09
• Democracy imperative — 2022-10-22
• Cast a ballot — 2022-05-16
• Yea or nay — 2022-05-08
• November exhortation — 2021-09-21
• Get out the ___ — 2021-04-06
• Capitol Hill activity — 2019-10-12
• Democracy in action — 2019-06-22
• Primary concern — 2018-07-08
• End of the word ladder — 2018-06-14
• Yea or nay — 2017-09-19
• Primary imperative? — 2017-05-07
• Word on a political button — 2016-08-04
• Democracy in action — 2015-09-09
• Ballot — 2015-05-25
• Raise one's hand, say — 2014-04-13
• November exhortation — 2013-09-17
• With 31-Across, favor, as a ballot measure — 2013-02-03
• What a 25-Across may have lost — 2012-07-21
• Subject of the 19th, 24th and 26th Amendments — 2012-07-08
• What an office seeker seeks — 2012-01-17
• Show of hands, e.g. — 2010-06-01
• Drop paper in a box, maybe — 2008-09-18
• Privilege of those 18 and over — 2008-06-10
• End of many a race — 2008-03-21
• Go for a party, say — 2008-02-29
• It may result in a landslide — 2007-02-15
• Say yea or nay — 2006-10-16
• Susan B. Anthony's goal — 2005-12-28
• Cast a ballot — 2005-01-17
• Suspenseful part of "Survivor" — 2004-08-22
• Say "aye," say — 2003-04-15
• Cast a ballot — 2003-03-17
• November catchword — 2002-08-05
• Declare up or down — 2000-12-09
• Stand up and be counted — 2000-10-11
• November exhortation — 1999-10-04
• Franchise — 1998-04-07
• Blackball, e.g. — 1997-06-20
• Have one's say, in a way — 1994-12-02
• Franchise — 1994-11-21
• November word — 1994-11-08