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Texas Voter Identification Law Over the recent years, the Texas legislature were speculating on a new policy which would require citizens to provide proof of identification by some form of issued photo identification. This was due to the excessive amount of fraudulent voting, and in 2011 this policy had come to pass under the Texas legislature. Throughout its review this law encountered many controversies on whether or not this policy would create any disruption in the voting system, the…

In the 2011 Canadian federal election, voter turnout was a disappointing 61.1% according to Elections Canada records; this was the second lowest recorded turnout in Canadian history. The introduction of the Fair Elections Act (Bill C-23) will likely drive this percentage even lower. Bill C-23 is a controversial Bill that makes significant changes to federal election policies in Canada. Harry Neufeld, an independent election consultant, argues that, contrary to its title, the Act is undemocratic…

Ever since gaining the right to vote, women in the United States have used their new power to further their ideals and influence politics.While women today are still not equal to men, many take advantage of the liberty they were once not allowed. In fact, the voters in the 2012 election were predominantly women, with 53% of voters being female (“The Woman’s Vote”). Throughout the women’s rights movement, there have been many women who advocated their goals through writings, publicity, speeches,…

Why the Electoral College is outdated Since the beginning of the U.S. the way we have determined our leader with the electoral college. In its day it worked very well. But in the 21st century, with all the advancements in technology that we have, there are better ways to count the votes. Although the electoral college has been in place since the beginning of the U.S., there are far better ways to count the votes for truly democratic system of voting. When our country was created, a system to…

Florence Kelley Rewrite Florence Kelley was a reformer who fought diligently to change the rights of women specifically in the 1905 conference in Philadelphia. Kelley gave a speech advocating for women to gain the right to vote. Given that her audience was women, Kelley appeals to her audience by combining pathos and logos as well as repetition to speak about ending child labor laws through voting. Florence Kelley uses logos to induce pathos in her audience. Kelly relates to the audience that…

running thanks to Obama. Soon there are going to be LGBTQ+ people who never thought they could run running thanks to Danica.Since everyone reading this lives in New Jersey I just want to say don’t be surprised if you see the name Trent Tournour on the ballot one day. I started this by talking about how it is hard to understand emotion but there is one…

Barack Obama spoke about mandatory voting in the March of 2015, he related, “If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country,” Voter participation is at an all-time low with only 36.4% of eligible voters casting ballots in the 2014 midterm elections. The problems that arise from low voter turnout are numerous, but the most influential impact from not voting is this – Politicians only care about individuals who vote, and if only certain groups are voting…

The structure and function of electoral college is based in the Constitution. Popular vote is, in part, applied to the electoral college process. However, the method does not quantify the individual vote the way popular vote values each, singular ballot.…

We the people of the United States of America created a constitution that is the law of the land and has been for the past 234 years. However, this document was created during a time that was very unlike the modern world. Due to the differences in the world that the founding fathers lived in they made a grave mistake that has yet to reprimanded in the all powerful document controlling the country. The mistake that the country’s forefathers made was the installation and the henceforth…

Rhetorical Skills in “Votes for Women”: Not Diverse, Still Well Used I was given an assignment to analyze the background history and the rhetorical skills used in a speech that I selected. The one I picked was a speech called “Votes for Women” by Mark Twain and the reason why I picked this is because both The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that he wrote are the two of my most favorite novels, and the speech itself also looked interesting in terms of both…