Approval voting

Undoubtedly, The Scottish Nationalist Party today dominates Scottish Politics in an impressive, and to some, even unthinkable way when compared to the party’s grassroots standing a mere 10 years ago. As of 2015, the SNP party is by in large the biggest political party in Scotland in terms of membership, reporting over 112,000 members, or more than 2% of the Scottish population (Scottish Parliament, 2015). But, this domination is perhaps not much of a surprise when the parties leaders, plans and…

college system allows each state to have one electoral vote for each of their US senators and representatives. Each state has a slate of electors for each presidential candidate, so when a citizen goes and votes, they aren't really voting for president, they are voting for the slate of electors. Whichever candidate wins the most votes in the state, wins all of the electoral votes for the entire state, which is a method called the “winners take all.” To become president, the candidate must…

When using the proportional voting system to elect the president the same winner, Barack Obama, was chosen, however with this new method the race was significantly closer. Using the current method used to elect President Obama, he won with three hundred and thirty two electoral votes to Mick Romney’s two hundred and six electoral votes. When the new method was used, the proportional system, Obama still won, however he did not win with as big of a gap as he did using the current method. With the…

the political culture. The political culture reflects what the people of the nation want from their political leaders. In the United States, people are faced with critical choices about the future of the country when they go into a voting booth. When going into voting booths, we have been…

The battle when I'm President On March 11, 2016 in Dubuque, Iowa the voting for president was taking place. Dubuque was the only place that was left to take the votes. Two people were trying to get others to vote for them. Dakota is my couisn. One of them was Dakota and the other one was me. Dakota was trying 19 and I was 13 but we were young enough to run for president of the U.S.A because the age to run for president was dropped to 13 and older. So far Dakota had the most votes. He had 100…

Over the years the America has vastly changed, once a nation they did everything in it’s power to insure that only wealthy white land owners could take place in the electoral process; now opens it’s election to any citizen eighteen years of age and older. Although elections tend to reflect the popular opinion the democratic primaries, it does not always reflect the popular opinion of the office holders of the Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Convention. In 1868…

voters vote him these criminals will not be allowed into this country any longer. He scares people into believing that they must vote for him so he can get a wall built to keep criminals out. This tactic being used has made me realize the importance of voting because these candidates are trying to intimate the voters and some voters fall for what it is that these candidates are actually trying to portray. I now realize that some voters may fall for this tactic because they’re intimidated and…

Conscientiousness is positively correlated with voter turnout and contacting news media, but negatively correlated with public demonstrations (Ha et al, 2013). Voting and contacting news media are processes that require thought and thorough planning, whereas public demonstrations such as rallies and protests tend to be more reckless affairs. Hence, it seems reasonable for conscientious individuals to be more likely to vote and contact news media, and less likely to attend public demonstrations.…

He stood there on the stage, facing attacks from all sides, as the front-runner in New Hampshire avoided nearly all critiques. This was not supposed to happen—just days earlier, Sen. Marco Rubio had succeeded in spinning his third-place finish in Iowa as a win, but he now began to sweat as all of his weaknesses were exploited by his opponents. In a particularly painful exchange, Rubio repeated (almost) the same line (“This notion that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing is just not true.…

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…