Approval voting

The Electoral College is in place to decide the president of the United States. There are people that agree on it and people that do not. The Electoral College System is an inadequate form of electing the president of the United States, there are better ways to go about choosing a president in a more Democratic way. Having a popular vote, or by deciding by congressional districts would be other options that Congress has thought about, and even states have signed in on being for a National…

African-American men were the Jim Crow laws. Jim Crow laws unfairly discriminated against African-Americans preventing them from casting their ballot at the voting poll. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 ended the overt forms of racial discrimination in voting practices. However, as time has passed and with the June 2013 Supreme Court decision declaring Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act (1965) unconstitutional, many more ambiguous ways to discriminate for elections (especially local) have come…

Welcome to America, where your opinion matters, or so you'd think. Every four years, we hear about The Electoral College, but we never talk about what it is, or at least how unfair it is. When we vote, we're actually just voting for the people that vote for president. Then, those people get together and cast their ballots for president, and can basically vote for whoever they want, regardless of who we vote for. In the year 2004, there was an elector who cast his ballot for someone called "John…

Unprecedented the 2000 Presidential Election is the riveting story about the battle for the Presidency in Florida and the undermining of democracy in America. From the moment the polls opened, it was painfully clear that something was wrong. While the media seized on the controversy surrounding the poorly designed Butterfly Ballot, much larger civil rights abuses were overlooked. Focusing on events leading up to Election Day and the attempt to count legally cast votes in the days that followed,…

In the expert from “Empire of Illusion” by Chris Hedges he states that “The most essential skill in political theater and consumer culture is artifice.” The author’s statement is correct because politicians want to try and convince as many people as they that they are the best for whichever role they are running for. This topic is interesting because Hedges is trying to give advice on what it takes to be successful in industries where the playing field is rough and not lots of people have…

Should there or should there not be a limit on the terms for presidency? This question has gone back and forth for a long time. Some arugue that it can give too much power to an individual, others say that the people have a right to choose who they want as a president even if it means there should be more terms. I for one, think that giving a person the right to more terms is the correct decision as long as the people agree on it. That being said just because a person gets more terms doesnt mean…

Voter Eligibility and Registration Voting, which could send a direct message to government about how citizens want to be governed, is at the heart of democracy. Among the thirty-one democracies, the U.S. has been experiencing a relatively low turnout in different levels of elections. The decrease in turnout, as discussed by many communication experts, could be in part attributed to voters’ apathy. Aside from voter attitudes, institutional barriers, such as difficulties of registering,…

“Why parties”? According to the American political scientist and author John Aldrich, parties are an endogenous institution. Although much recent literature has focused on the decline of parties, and on the resulting loss of a major historical vehicle for aggregating the interests of this diverse republic, parties have always been no more than a tool of the politicians, the ambitious office seekers, and the officeholders. They have maintained or abused the party system when doing so has…

system means that there is a minority, which means that not everyone will agree on the decisions, but as they are not enough sharing the same ideas there will always be a part that will be excluded. It is a waste for people who take their time in voting and in the end their vote won’t be even taking into consideration, which means that they will feel that their opinions is not good enough. Direct democracy is structurally conservative; this is not a process that can easily break the habits and…

capital can be referred as the features of social organization such as networks, norms, and social trust that facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit. Social capital can be measured by engagement in PTA attendance, association groups, voting, etc. Social capital is important because it can cause politics advertises to be conquered such as accomplishments made by the Freedom Riders. If citizens do not see the importance of their duties in the political community, then political…