Voting Essay

is instead correct rather to say that each individual policy will sway individual voting blocks, “single-issue voters” are a frighteningly large margin of total voters. Politicians appear to recognize this often taking stances such as the pro-life stance which is used to win over the evangelical demographic or promising welfare increases to win over inner-city populations. This pattern of voting is shown…

several years, straight party voting has been one of Texas’s method for voters to cast a vote. Straight party voting’s effectiveness in Texas has lasted up until a recent discussion. It wasn’t until after “long hours of debate in which two lawmakers faced off in the middle of the Texas House floor, that the lawmakers decided to pass a bill into law that would eliminate straight-party voting option starting on September 1, 2020”(Barragán). Although straight party voting has been utilized for so…

In many countries, the government believes that voting is the citizen's constitutional right. Even though that goes for most countries, there is a small portion with a government that believed voting is the citizen's duty and responsibility. These countries go by the compulsory voting system. The compulsory system makes it so citizens don't have a choice on whether they want to vote or stay away and let others decide. Having a compulsory voting law in the U.S would be unconstitutional and would…

people not going to the polls and voting. Compulsory voting or mandatory voting are laws that several democratic nations have passed making citizens go to vote on election day. The number one opposing statement to mandatory voting is that it impedes on the Right to Vote. Mandatory voting is effective at raising turnout and reducing turnout inequality. In Australia, the introduction of compulsory voting for Commonwealth elections in 1924 resulted in an increase in the voting levels from 57.9% at…

AOW- Should Voting Be Mandatory? Voting Should be mandatory in the United States. The article “Should voting be Mandatory” is about how the author thinks voting should be mandatory for people over 18. One reason is because it would make people pay more attention to which president the citizens are voting for. Another reason that voting should be mandatory is that congress may actually pay more attention to things that now there ignoring. Some people may think that voting should still be…

The argument on voting age has been going on for a long time. Lowering the voting age to 16 may decrease the percentage of participation, but it could also be helpful to have younger peoples opinions added. Keeping the voting age at 18 may help increase our percentage of Americans voting. My opinion on this topic would be to keep the voting age at 18. I think the voting age should stay at 18 because I dont think younger people have much intrest in politics. I am above 18 and still dont have any…

the world have instituted a voting age of 18, but there are a few countries who have chosen to lower the voting age to 16. In Canada, to be eligible to vote an individual must be 18 years of age, and also be a Canadian citizen. This paper will argue that lowering the voting age would have a positive impact on democracy in Canada. This paper will assess the impact of lowering the voting age by examining countries who have already lowered the voting age to 16, the…

describe the way the voting system works. As of now in the United States we have a winner take all approach to the voting system, which is about what it sounds like. Within this system known as winner takes all which is not proportional. Commonly also referred to as first past the post voting system there can only be one winner. Based on the idea that each citizen will be able to vote once in each election and the candidate with the most votes will win. A single member district voting system is…

The Precedent of Mandatory Voting “Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.” In his autobiography, Abraham Lincoln said this when discussing the voter turnout among the general population (Cite1). The idea of mandatory voting is not a new one, dating back to the city of Athens in ancient Greece (Cite). Since then, the idea of forcing a nation’s citizens to vote…

Integrating voting via the internet as a definitive model to participate in electing government officials is a new phenomenon developed to stimulate democratic involvement. Although the accessibility of internet voting is a viable model to increase higher voter turnout rates and reduce governmental cost, I believe internet voting should not be incorporated into democracy because it perpetuates a stronger bias in the results sustaining an economic classes where only citizens with the economic…