Election Day

Animal Conspiracy Theory “Alright, so it is the night before the voting of the presidential election and the plan is that we will be breaking into the White House and hacking all of the voting systems to help Donald Trump win the election.” “No! I want Hillary to win the election. ‘Better Together!’ Duh!” “Well, that´s too bad, Jim. We already went over this. Everyone voted for Donald, so we are hacking it for Donald to win. I appreciate your autonomy, but stop being anti-Trump.” Welcome to…

democracy. Among the thirty-one democracies, the U.S. has been experiencing a relatively low turnout in different levels of elections. The decrease in turnout, as discussed by many communication experts, could be in part attributed to voters’ apathy. Aside from voter attitudes, institutional barriers, such as difficulties of registering, mismatched information, registration closing day and so forth, could significantly impact voter turnout and seriously drive down turnout. In this paper, I will…

One of the common themes heard in the 2016 presidential election was the idea that the political system is corrupt; it is what allowed Donald Trump, a reality TV celebrity with no political experience whatsoever, to rise above sixteen other candidates, and it is what helped septuagenarian Bernie Sanders win over the hearts of the American youth. Now this idea that the American political system is tainted, unfortunately, has some ground to stand on: the lack of transparency between politicians…

would prefer, to be understood by others, to hold elected officials liable for their settlements and to have a voice in vital subjects that impact your community. The Electoral College is extremely expensive, but yields the same results as a general election, therefore, the College is not only unreasonable financially, it also is not very useful. Every 4 years, citizens from the United States go to voting booths located around their community…

Why do younger people turn out to vote at lower rates rather than do other age groups? The answer is yes, and here’s why. The adolescents a part of Generation Y (Millennial) seem to be inattentive, preoccupied with something else worth their time or are nonetheless careless. Evidently, younger individuals seem to exhibit some sort of lackadaisical mood whenever they’re asked about anything involving politics; it just doesn’t seem to grasp their interest let alone think it affects them in any way…

vote for for this election? A lot of people tend to vote today based off what they have heard about a candidate and that could be the negatives or positives. My informative paper consists of research about different candidates and different office positions. It will talk about the different views on presidential candidates and whose running for what office in the US Senator and US Representatives as well. Since I am from Orangeburg, South Carolina and there are five elections that are occurring…

authorization of these laws point to the difference between the effects on white voters versus non-whites. Advocates of voter identification, nonetheless, assert that these kinds of prohibitive legislation are the only main methods for securing fair elections. Supporters raise the thought of voter deception as the biggest conceivable obstacle in keeping up our law based arrangement of the government. Somehow, these two…

of the state's Senate and House of Representatives commission at present, the quantity of electors per state ranges from three to 54, for a sum of 538. Individuals really vote in favor of a group of electors when they go to the voting polls on Election Day. These electors have agreed to support a party's nominee chosen for president. In numerous states the ballot list only the names of the presidential candidates and not the names of the electors, so a large number of individuals think they are…

Election day has been the same Tuesday every four years since 1845, strategically placed after the last harvest of the year, and before the first winter snow storm. This system worked out well, until the United States moved away from being a primarily agrarian society. Eventually, "the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of November” was no longer a convenient time of the year to hold elections because it lands directly in the middle of the work week. This is a huge concern because…

Imagine if you lived in a country where you had no fair and equal say in government. Your opinions on how to run the country would be skewed, contorted, and misrepresented. This is our reality as citizens of the United States on presidential election days. The votes are not fair under the Electoral College, today’s system of electing our president. In this system, citizens vote for electors in each state who convene in December to decide the next president. For numerous reasons, the Electoral…