Voting How much do individual votes matter? Many people ask this, and many people say “no.” This question is having a large hidden effect on our society as a whole. People do not vote in general elections because they believe that their votes do not matter, but some people feel very strongly about it being their civil duty to vote. With this problem of voters not thinking voting is worth it, has the consequence that huge amounts of people are not voting in the election, meaning the elected candidate only got high enough votes on people who care enough to vote. This also makes politicians try to appeal to demographics that have a higher chance of voting, while the non-voting demographics get ignored more. The whole scenario of people not voting
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This source shows the bias of the mindset of the people that believe that voting isn’t worth the trouble of going through the whole process. The magazine writes about how there is a paradox in the election, where voting seems important because it chooses who it gets elected, but useless because of the insignificance of the individual voter. The article writes about how the chance of it coming down to a single vote is extremely small, and that as an individual, votes don’t matter for the most part, most likely not worth the time wasted on voting itself. It states that the only reason to vote would be because of “civic obligation.” The article also mentions the problems with the Electoral College discussed before, where people in some states, votes mean more than other states, but discusses the winner takes all system to counter each other out. This article has some points on how minimal one specific vote means, about how unlikely it is for one vote to matter at all. The parts that seem flawed are when the writer states that if one president would make someone a million dollars, if this was multiplied with the low chance of one vote to make the votes seem even more useless, this could be seen as a winner takes all system as well as the Electoral College system. The writer also ignores the fact that with the less amount of people voting, the more the people who do vote, the more
This source shows the bias of the mindset of the people that believe that voting isn’t worth the trouble of going through the whole process. The magazine writes about how there is a paradox in the election, where voting seems important because it chooses who it gets elected, but useless because of the insignificance of the individual voter. The article writes about how the chance of it coming down to a single vote is extremely small, and that as an individual, votes don’t matter for the most part, most likely not worth the time wasted on voting itself. It states that the only reason to vote would be because of “civic obligation.” The article also mentions the problems with the Electoral College discussed before, where people in some states, votes mean more than other states, but discusses the winner takes all system to counter each other out. This article has some points on how minimal one specific vote means, about how unlikely it is for one vote to matter at all. The parts that seem flawed are when the writer states that if one president would make someone a million dollars, if this was multiplied with the low chance of one vote to make the votes seem even more useless, this could be seen as a winner takes all system as well as the Electoral College system. The writer also ignores the fact that with the less amount of people voting, the more the people who do vote, the more