Henry David Thoreau Prompt Of Civil Disobedience Analysis

In Henry David Thoreau’s prompt of Civil Disobedience, he quotes, “All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it.” Meaning that when it comes to voting, everyone should take their time to research and look at who he or she is voting for and have good reasoning and information to why they are voting for that person. But there are some citizens who chose not to vote and have logical explanations to why they aren’t voting and some of these include: “My vote won’t count”, they don’t agree with the any of the candidate’s campaigns, and some just aren’t legalized to vote just yet. Every four years a new president is said to be elected for the United States, when it comes who to vote for people have their own opinions and suggestion to who should fill that spot. But what most elector’s come to think about election time is that they are just filling a piece of paper out with agreements and disagreements of what the ballot shows as options and that their opinions put upon that ballot aren’t even going to be counted in with much of other’s that voted. Some solutions that can be made to have more voter’s in the election is if the person counting the tallies for each …show more content…
Another reasoning to why most people don’t vote is because not all the votes casted are honest votes. Most votes made are by playing eeny, meeny, miny, mo with the list of people or they just bubble in an answer when they have no background knowledge for who their voting for or agreeing and disagreeing with. A solution to this occurring action is to have the voters write their reasons and comments on their ballot to help the votes be more considerable as being honest votes. Everyone has an opinion when it comes to things, so why not take their opinion and use it for something