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Tactical voting is described as “casting a ballot not for the person you want to vote for, but for the candidate best positioned to defeat the candidate you most dislike” (“The pros and cons”). This is extremely common. For example, in 2015 the New Democratic Party ran on the platform of “Stop Harper…

vote from being the winner of the election this contrasts in terms of overall majority. The argument that the electoral college hinders true representation is based on the fact that the plurality in each state gets the whole state as far as the ballots go. However the counterargument is that the Electoral College and the first pass the Post System that allow for true representation from each state in the election. This is because each state has a different winner that was chosen by the people…

people vote? Is there some motivator that would cause a young person to vote? Single issue voting has increasingly become a popular trend in America, could that be a motivator? Robert Winsler’s "The Accidental Motivator: Florida 's Medicinal Marijuana Ballot Initiative 's Impact on the Youth Vote," sought out to understand whether a single issue and preconceived beliefs on certain topics such as marijuana could be that motivator. Winsler’s study specifically involves Florida 's 2014 Amendment…

Voting is one of, if not the most critical parts of life in a majority rules system. The battle for equal voting rights in our nation is a fight that has spread over the presence of our country specifically. We had once trusted that the passage of both the nineteenth Amendment and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were ventures forward in securing access to all voters. Alas, the previous decade has seen clearing attempts at seriously confining the privilege to vote due to voter identification…

Asian Americans have done well in achieving a high degree of success than the average population. The term model minority was created to describe Asian Americans who despite demeaned have achieved success in the United States. In his article “Why Asian-Americans Are Not a Model Minority” Simon Hedlin (2016) explains why the model minority image of Asian American exist for all American of Asian descent. Last year the Census Bureau reported that Asian-Americans “earned less than whites;” in…

When it comes to how the United States votes and how the government runs, it is very important to understand considering how greatly government controls our lives. Surprisingly enough, the average American has little to no knowledge of how voting or anything else political works. For example, most do not even understand what the Electoral College is and how it works although it has an enormous impact on our lives. The Electoral College is the only voice we as Americans have in government…

He said the company cited the District's rising minimum wage, now at $11.50 an hour and possibly going to $15 an hour if a proposed ballot measure is successful in November. He also said a proposal for legislation requiring D.C. employers to pay into a fund for family and medical leave for employees, and another effort to require a minimum amount of hours for hourly workers were compounding…

In conclusion, to create the ideal government there must be big changes made to the courts, elections, political parties, and both the executive and legislative branches. It is clear that the current system of government in the US is not effective in all areas. However, it is equally clear that there is no prefect form of government anywhere else in the world. Combining various systems and modification of the current US government would help to create a more complete and better functioning…

Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and the presidential election have been getting a lot of attention because of how much seems to be at stake. However, a large shift in the white house isn't the only thing at stake. This election year, there are also 24 republican seats which are up for reelection. Given that there is only an 8 seat differential between the parties, there is a potential that the Democrats could once again hold a majority in the senate. Of all the senate seats up for reelection,…

turns a blind eye to the 'customs' of its Islamic immigrants. Girls are pulled out of school in their mid-teens and are forced into marriages, which amounts to kidnapped and raped. As for suffrage, in many places Britain still uses mail-only ballots, where the ballots are delivered to a household. Under such conditions, the head-of-household can 'persuade' those of voting age to vote in a certain way, both eliminating woman's suffrage and their ability to make a change. In other places, female…