Election

popular vote or “direct election”. One of the major issues that arise when dealing with elections is the competing principles…

Indigenous communities. It is no surprise that voter turnout among Aboriginal Canadians is lower than among non-Aboriginal Canadians. Upon researching surveys conducted with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal electors following the last four Canadian federal elections there are reasons for the gap in turnout. Aboriginals who live on First Nations reserves tend to vote less than those who reside off reserves. There are many factors that affect voting turn out for both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal…

The Electoral College is an integral part of the current election process of the United States. Created during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, the Founding Fathers developed the establishment of Electors through debate of the Virginia Plan which proposed that Congress should elect the President. However, concerns of the President being controlled by Congress and fears over a small group of individuals being able to dictate who would hold office, presented the need to change the plan.…

a presidential election? Throughout the course of history, campaigning has been an important and effective way to gain support for a candidate during elections. However, questions have been raised about whether or not spending more leads to more success. In different scenarios financial backing can be more or less important to the popularity of a candidate, but overall it is not the only factor that influences the votes that the candidate receives in primaries as well as on election day. Money…

be shortened, depending on the election,) then that candidate is the rightful winner. In other words, the winner takes it all. In…

the high popularity Morales received in his prior elections—2005: 53.7%, 2009: 53.7%, and 2014: 65%; this popularity suggests that due to the linear trend in relation to Morales the appeal to pass the referendum should pass, allowing Morales to run again in 2019. However, the referendum that Morales and the MAS had in mind did not work in their favor. Rather in an article released by El Pais, Polls Point to Victory for ‘No’ Vote in Bolivia Re-election Referendum, polls illustrate that “the ‘no’…

were very concerned with the president being elected by “smart” people. Considering all of that, the electoral college was a great system for electing the president of the United States at that time. However, in modern times, a direct presidential election would be better. In 1787 The United States was a very young country that was trying to figure out how to run its self. There were many important issues such as how much power should the federal government have, how much power should each state…

do so and ensure that the election will still be carried in a fair and accurate way will take time, and approval on various different levels of legislation. The problem with our countries low voter turnout rates during federal elections is lower then we would like, but not as low as our cities and states low voter turnout rates among state and local election. Although these numbers will never be the same, because there is way more people voting in the federal elections, the percentage rate of…

treatment during elections? How much coverage do they receive compared to major parties? Many states do not include third party presidential candidates in their ballots. Most of the focus by the media is on the stances of the main political parties. There have been many arguments suggesting that the third parties deserve an equivalent amount of recognition by media as major parties. However, others believe that since third parties have no clear chance of winning a major election, it is…

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.…