The Importance Of Voting In Texas

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Out of all the fifty states in the United States Texas is one of the biggest. Meaning more people would be voting. But that is not the case here. Is it because we don’t go out and vote or is because the government. That is something that we will be discussing today. The voter turnout in Texas is the lowest in the in all of the States. Why is this? This is probably because Texas has so many people that are educated in politics. I myself consider myself one of those persons. Noting knowing about politics is a big part. If I know what was going on and was more informed it would help me out and maybe I would go out and vote. Another reason may be because we have so many young people in Texas. Meaning that everyone else is voting except them. It could be …show more content…
The ones that have been voting sever since. They are the ones that know what is going on and are informed as well. Even when they know that what happening in politics today is not going to affect them. The ones that will be effected will be the younger generation. It may as well be because so many Hispanics live in Texas. With so many Hispanics making almost more than half of the population in Texas. But that makes no difference if they don’t go out and vote. It may be because they are scared of what they hear might happen with immigration. Even when they have no risk at all. Yes, no risk but they have families that they think about. They don’t feel that they should put them in jeopardy. May be it’s just the simple fact that my vote won’t make a difference. I my think that it won’t make a simple difference but how many people

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