Election

today. But what is a political party? Consider a school board. One part of the community seeks to get a new sports stadium built for the district. The other wants renovations to occur for their theater. When the seats on the board are open for re election, the stadium supporters can come together to get a candidate that also wants the stadium on the board. The theater supporters can also come together and try to get their own candidate on the board. Now change the seat on the school…

For example, in many countries it is required to vote only if you are a registered voter, but it is not compulsory to register. People might then have incentives not to register. In many cases, like Australia, an acceptable excuse for absence on Election Day will avoid…

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…

newly formed democracies all over the world, but the election to choose our nation’s leader isn’t as fair as it seems. While every citizen’s voice is heard in the public polls, ultimately it’s the Electors’ votes that select the new president. Therefore, I believe that our election…

In the current US election system, citizens do not directly vote for their next President. Instead, there is a group called The Electoral College that carries out that function. Citizens Cast their votes and then those votes are tallied up by state. Once tallied, the Electors, also known as Representatives, of the states go and place their votes. Each state has a certain amount of electoral votes placed by those electors. Whoever those Electors vote for is to whom all the electoral votes of that…

other less populous states combined. Due to this, a candidate could feasibly lose the popular election while winning the necessary number of Electoral votes should they win key states, thus securing the Presidency. This ‘electoral crisis’ (Spilerman & Dickens, 1974) can give rise to situations such as in the 2000 election where VP Al Gore won the popular vote by approximately 500,000 votes, yet lost the election to George W.…

Here we are ladies and gentleman: November, 2016. The day that we have all been waiting for has now arrived, and the results of the presidential election will be in before we know it. This presidential cycle has been continuously going for over two years now, and I am enthralled by all of it. Because it is the first election in which I am eligible to vote, it has received my special attention, and thorough research. The 19th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States gives me the right…

our first brokered convention since 1952. The 2016 Presidential election has brought into question some of the rules and procedures that govern over primaries and conventions. The term “Contested Convention” and “Open Convention” have been mistakenly used to describe what will be a Brokered Convention. The first question that many have is what exactly are the role of delegates and how do they affect primaries/caucuses and the election as a whole: • Delegates: Individuals chosen to represent…

and the electoral college shouldn’t have the final say. Also people who already have a place in office should be able to be an elector because of their background and education in elections. Document 7, the 2016 Presidential Election Electoral Vote Map & Projection shows how many votes each state receives in this election. The smaller states population wise…

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…