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    people correspondingly founded on the importance of growing as an educated society. Similar logic validates how important it is to take part in this nation’s decision making. Americans are used to hearing about elections that are afflicted by low voter-turnout. Those people argue that they detest the government and all things it contains. However, they are yet to comprehend how their voting decision will be helpful to the nation. Many Americans perceive voting as optional however; one of the…

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    Voting In Canada

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    Voting percentages of young adults in Canada has been on a gradual decline for the past 30 years, as shown in “Samara: Message Not Delivered”, reaching an all time low during the 2011 Federal Election. Youth voting has seen a decrease in volume due to reasons such as political leaders failing to contact young adults during key electoral times, young adults perceiving that politics are irrelevant to them, and in British Columbia, for example, registering to be eligible to vote in the Provincial…

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    Youth Voting Problem

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    they could do this is by not voting” -Franklin D. Roosevelt. With the rise of youth voting increasing to 22 million voters in the 2008 presidential and 23 million voters in the 2012 election, still only about half of the American youth population voted in 2008 and 2012. This is a serious problem in our society because young people need to find their voices by getting politically educated and turn out to vote. The only people who can change the shortage of youth voting are the 18-29 year olds who…

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    ideological extremity on the electoral outcomes of incumbents. Therefore, the authors set up an experiment to determine whether voters punish incumbents more severely for voting lockstep partisanship than for ideological extremism. By understating the article’s results, political scientists are able to analyze if partisanship voting motivates constituents to hold their legislators accountable. In addition, political scientists have an opportunity to explore the extent to which each factor,…

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    Introduction The steady decline of youth voter turnout in Canada calls for drastic action to reverse this trend and engage youth with their civic responsibilities to ensure a strong voter turnout that will ultimately arbitrate the health of Canada’s democratic system in the future (Elections Canada, 2011). Political education within formal institutions is perhaps the most penetrative opportunity to reach youth across Canada (Canada’s Public Policy Forum, 2012). Despite this opportunity to…

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    the majority who participate”. Voting is the most important and fundamental form of participation that a citizen undertakes in a democratic government. In 2004 AGIA commissioned a series of get out and vote posters and advertisements to remind voters of this responsibility. One advertisement entitled “Get Out The Vote: Voting Is Sexy” highlights a photograph of a sexy pair of woman’s legs in a voting booth along with typed print expressing the idea that voting is sexy and the viewer of the…

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    The sole purpose of the Electoral College is to bring balance regarding the voting of the President and Vice President amid the congress and the voting citizens. Although, during the past times, the voting of the President and the Vice President was solely to the Congress as they are the appropriate entity that represents the public opinion. Edmund stated in his speech regarding to the Bristol…

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    Voting Stereotypes

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    Opinions on political matters are also shared more often and with higher magnitude as the rise of social media has continued with users able to use share their opinions to a wide audience at any time. Despite all this, the voting turnout for presidential elections and voting on issues has been down for quite some time, especially for the young adult and college student crowd. The crowd of young adult voters that…

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    people, they would not be wrong. In fact, much of the Trump voting pool is rooted in racist ideals. In a recent study, voters who were the most denying of racism in America today were almost twice as likely to vote for Donald Trump, same with sexism, almost twice as likely to vote Republican than those who were the least sexist (Christopher DeSante and Candis Smith, 14/26). The correlation with the ethnocentric viewpoints of this voting population is extremely worrying, but it does make sense…

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