Election Day

illegally in the last presidential election, due to his moving from Virginia to Maryland, but still voting in Virginia when November 8th came around. Virginia does give a grace period of thirty days after moving out of the state to vote, but Garrish had moved prior to the 30-day mark. The article then goes on to discuss the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, making a comment that the commission has been very controversial and that election fraud is “extremely rare”. In…

“Why This Election Feels Never-Ending” Rhetorical Analysis The article “Why This Election Feels Never-Ending” is an opinion based article on the website New York Times on September 6, 2016. The writer, Emma Roller, is showing the voters why the election is so much longer this time than previous elections. The article is written in a biased way in that Emma Roller does not like the election to be extensive. The main rhetorical tools in this article are logical appeal, rhetorical questions and…

One push of a button is all that it takes to cast a vote. The act of voting is such a menial task, yet we (the Millennial generation) continue to neglect the election polls. The question remains, why do Millennials refuse to vote? Perhaps the answer lies in the notion that voting is an ineffective method to solve political issues. An overwhelming majority of us would argue that there are alternative forms of political action that exist which are more effective than voting. Some of these other…

into what townships were like back then and even tells us of its origins. He paints a rather rosy picture of involvement and the livelihood of how townships operated. By looking at how Tocqueville saw townships in his day and age, we can use it to compare how townships look in today’s day and age. Tocqueville counts Plymouth, New York as the where the origins of the township system were created. When people got here they knew they needed some type of government and they decided to pick their…

Voting: A Right Hindered 1. What is the main idea of the passage? Why voters do not vote in local elections. 2. What three causes does the author list in the thesis statement? 1) Unethical voting practices. 2) They do not know enough about local issues. 3) New voting laws. 3. What should the reader be able to infer from the title? The obstacles that a voter encounters when they try to vote. 4. List several transition words the author chooses to include in order to move the reader from…

Why use polling? Polling is utilized in politics to gauge the public’s attitude toward a person or issue and to learn what message could persuade a particular type of voter to support a particular person or issue. Polls can measure candidate viability through the ballot test question, and evaluate the effectiveness of a particular communication strategy. For instance, polling allows a representative sample of 1,000 people to share their opinions on a candidate or issue, thereby providing the…

Barton Swaim’s The Washington Post online article, “Who’s to blame for fake news? America’s real newsrooms” posted on December 12, 2016, criticizes how people are naive when analyzing media. Swaim faces modern issues that affect journalism and speechwriters. As a journalist, being the first to get the story out, Swaim could not let misleading and inappropriate information get out to the public which is why his exigence is to inform the audience of what they are exposed to with the media.…

When a person wants to run for president election, they announce it before the primary elections. The primary elections help decide the future president and the vice president. There is a convention held in the summer of the election year, where the party would choose its candidates. Once the candidates have been chosen, that is when the they go around the country meeting people, making speeches and making promises about what they will do for the people while they are in office, they usually…

Wayne County Board of Elections will have to answer when it holds a hearing 10:30 a.m. April 5 to hear from Stephen Spoonamore about why he voted on a Democratic Party ballot minutes after filing petitions to run as a nonpartisan candidate in the District 1 state representative race. Scott Wiggam is the Republican nominee, having defeated David Kiefer in the primary, and no Democrat filed to run for the seat. Spoonamore’s status was raised during Monday’s Board of Elections meeting. Director…

Giving voters democratically the opportunity to follow the media’s opinion In 2005 the yearly World Press Freedom Day international conference on the 3th of may made a statement, containing: “independent and pluralistic media are essential for ensuring transparency, accountability and participation as fundamental elements of good governance and human-rights based development”. In addition, they said to all countries and people involved: “respect the function of the news media as an essential…