Election Day

Voter Suppression in the United States has been in an issue for a long time, but the majority of the people fail to recognize what could happen if these bills pass. In small and major elections, voter fraud is something the states are trying to minimize. In order for this to happen, the states pass laws to avoid fraud, but in many cases, these laws prevent certain types of people from voting or scaring them off. In North Carolina, the voter suppression tactic is very recent. There was a law that…

or anyone else who holds a high title. With democracy everyone has a voice and an opinion to share. When the people vote it gives them the power that they have craved. Everyone votes for who they want to lead their country to success. Voting and elections has a positive impact on democracy because it allows people to express their opinion and without it democracy would cease to exist. Voting is very important to making up a democracy style government. When people don’t vote the democracy fails…

According to the article The Architect Matthew Dowd states, that republican that had money started to immigrate to Texas. In-migration changing drastically in the state of Texas and they started to lose democrat and this why we have more republicans now. The vote in Texas is divided into democratic and republican voter but republicans outnumber democrat each year. It affects the patterns because the lower part of Texas is voting for democrat and the upper part of Texas votes for republican win…

(("The Electoral College." 12). There haven’t been many and none have actually affected the outcome of an election, but it still worries some, because it may end up affecting a close race. There are three scenarios and rules that could take place if the death or resignation of a candidate or president-elect were to occur. The first incident occurred when Horace Greenley, died after the popular election. The meeting of the Electoral College had not occurred and this left confusion to many,…

citizen’s the outlet to vote from home, we would be giving the convenience they are looking for. As a lifelong resident of Pacific Northwest I have a vested interest in the social and political impacts to my community. I have personally voted in 3 elections since turning 18, and from my own personal experience by mail voting (BMV) has had a huge impact on the voting participation for me and my family. I grew up in a house with two parents who work full time and constantly kept my sister and I…

this year's election, or 26,750,000 in total votes. In a surprising result, Warren G. Harding won 37 states, while James Cox had received 11. The Republicans won over 75% of the states while the Democrats carried less than 25%. Harding proved to be unsuccessful in the deep South, especially in the previously seceded states like in Florida, where Harding received 30.79% of the vote, while Cox had over double that with 62.13% of 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…

all remember the 2000 election. I was only a junior, but its still burnt in my head. All I heard was, “Bush did this!”, and “Gore did that!” Even some of my friends were talking about how the Florida count was bogus. But, what about the election of 1876? There wasn't CNN back then, or Facebook status posts on what happened during the election. Lets compare, and see which one was “more fair or not.” My opinion, the election of 2000 was more unfair. Here is why The election of 1876, the…

Significance of the Election 1912 The Election of 1912 was an election that tore friends apart and showed the view of what people wanted for America. There were four candidates that took part in the race for the White House, at one point 2 candidates were part of the same party, and they were Theodore Roosevelt of the Progressive Party, Woodrow Wilson of the Democratic Party, Eugene Debs of the Socialist Party, and William Howard Taft of the Republican party. Roosevelt and Taft were friends…

(2). We often discover that it is caused by a user error. Therefore, North Carolina should keep their voting machines because they are less time consuming, cheaper, and most importantly, all votes are recorded and saved on a disk. First of all, election voting are much more efficient than paper ballots. With paper ballots, the line would be longer. It would take more time to mark ballots compared to just touching the screen on the machine. Decision would…