Election Day

one vote decides an election. However when deciding to vote there are many factors people must take into consideration. One reason people don’t vote is because they think their single vote doesn’t make a difference to the outcome. “It is more likely however, that you will be struck by lightning during your lifetime that participate in an election decided by a single vote.” When millions of people vote in the same election on the same day your vote matters, but the election will rarely be…

This finding would mean that the poor simply chose to not go out and vote even though they were registered and eligible to be part of the election process. Hypothesis #3: If the state and federal government requires all employers to provide employees with paid time off to vote on Election Day or if the presidential election day was declared a national holiday, then voter turnout rates would increase within the lower income population. The poor are not able to take unpaid leaves…

kinds of jobs that require us to leave our hometown that we are living in to go on a business trip of some sorts. We should develop a law that allows us to extend our voting regions. Many people do not go vote because they are out of town the days of elections and simply can’t vote because we are designated only one place only to go vote. If the government would keep track of all the citizens personal data like our name, birthdate, and social security number. They could make all of our state…

1776, any white male that owned property in the United States had the right to vote in the local and national election. Today, this country has come a long way in voting rights and any eligible adult can vote if they meet some basic requirements. Looking specifically at Alaska, an individual has voting rights if they are: 1) a U.S. Citizen; 2) a resident in Alaska 30 days before an election; 3) 18 years or older; 4) not convicted felon or a convicted felon with voting rights restored; and 5)…

November and the 2016 presidential election is approaching up rapidly, and with each day, the competition only seems to become fiercer. One can turn on any TV new station, and he or she will only see a barrage of presidential hopefuls competing with each other for airtime. At this moment in time, there are 21 candidates running in the election: six of them are Democrats, and the other fifteen are Republicans. Within this large array of politicians, the two that stand out the most are Hillary…

On the 4th of November, in the year of 2008, having the first African-American Democratic candidate win the presidential election of the United States made history. President Barack Obama became the forty-fourth president of the United States by beating out his Republican competitor, John McCain. This announcement to the thousands in attendance and to the millions that it was televised to signified a sense of hope and accomplishment. Again, in 2012, he won the presidency and is currently serving…

Electoral Dysfunction is a Participatory Non-fiction Documentary that follows Mo Rocca as he learns about the electoral college and voting. In the first scene Mo starts off and asks people where voting is a right or a privilege and 4 out of 5 people say that it is a right. After this clear plurality consensus he turns to the Constitution to see what it says, it is then realized that nowhere in the constitution does it acknowledge voting as a right nor a privilege it is simply not brought up.…

How can voting turnout become higher in the United States? A question that is constantly raised by the Government and the Election Administrators in their effort to increase the citizens ' participation in democracy. There are different factors such as age, income, education, and culture that can directly affect the interest in politics and consequently the voters ' turnouts. For instance, in the article "For Every 10 U.S. Adults, Six Vote and Four Don’t. What Separates Them?"The New York Times…

Canadian Federal Election in many ways can be considered a re-defining election in Canadian history that ended a Conservative dynasty that lasted nearly a decade, by electing a Liberal majority government led by Justin Trudeau. The election of the Trudeau Liberals saw the single largest increase of seats by a political party in Canadian history, which just four years ago faced near political extinction, and began the campaign polling third at the start of the writ period. This election is also…

Voter turnout in recent presidential elections has been unbelievably low in comparison to other elections throughout America’s history. The country’s voter participation also ranks far below many major political elections that take place in different governments around the world. Many believe that the ultimate reason for which America’s voter turnout remains at such a considerably lower percentage than in other countries is because voting is not mandatory like it sometimes is elsewhere. However,…