Electronic voting

Politics are a big part of life in the United States. Voting for the next president is a very difficult decision to make. We all need to see what goods they will bring to our country, what things will they do for the country, and what things will be greater.The candidates running for president always send messages in their propaganda to convince us. Although the candidates make their own commercial to convince the people, those commercials have different techniques to persuade us and make us…

of popular sovereignty is the 2016 presidential election. We the people voted for who we wanted as the president, to represent our land and hopefully help our government. The election shows popular sovereignty because we the people voted and chose. Voting is the main way you show popular sovereignty. Another example of popular sovereignty is…

Nowhere in our Constitution does it mention the words democracy or democratic. A democracy is a system of government run by either the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. However, the word republic is mentioned, which means a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives. This is important because it contradicts the assumption that America is a democracy. The main difference between a democracy…

How I Became a Writer I was a restless child. My parents were astonished at how energetic and chatty their skinny, dark hair girl was. It was made clear to my parents that they needed strategies when it came to putting me to bed, and so they began nightly bedtime stories. Bedtime stories signified the closing of the day. Routinely my father would race me to bed and tightly tuck me in (tightly enough so I couldn’t escape). After tuck in he’d lay on my carpet floor and ask me what story I…

unhappy that they were getting cheated out of votes and their profit(simple), so most people were having enough with the government not helping people out of poverty(simple). The reason this had affected people was the majority of people were voting for that person was they would do a service for them then they would vote for the person that helped them money,crops etc... This had affected people from having hard workers in the office instead of someone…

Undoubtedly, The Scottish Nationalist Party today dominates Scottish Politics in an impressive, and to some, even unthinkable way when compared to the party’s grassroots standing a mere 10 years ago. As of 2015, the SNP party is by in large the biggest political party in Scotland in terms of membership, reporting over 112,000 members, or more than 2% of the Scottish population (Scottish Parliament, 2015). But, this domination is perhaps not much of a surprise when the parties leaders, plans and…

college system allows each state to have one electoral vote for each of their US senators and representatives. Each state has a slate of electors for each presidential candidate, so when a citizen goes and votes, they aren't really voting for president, they are voting for the slate of electors. Whichever candidate wins the most votes in the state, wins all of the electoral votes for the entire state, which is a method called the “winners take all.” To become president, the candidate must…

When using the proportional voting system to elect the president the same winner, Barack Obama, was chosen, however with this new method the race was significantly closer. Using the current method used to elect President Obama, he won with three hundred and thirty two electoral votes to Mick Romney’s two hundred and six electoral votes. When the new method was used, the proportional system, Obama still won, however he did not win with as big of a gap as he did using the current method. With the…

the political culture. The political culture reflects what the people of the nation want from their political leaders. In the United States, people are faced with critical choices about the future of the country when they go into a voting booth. When going into voting booths, we have been…

The battle when I'm President On March 11, 2016 in Dubuque, Iowa the voting for president was taking place. Dubuque was the only place that was left to take the votes. Two people were trying to get others to vote for them. Dakota is my couisn. One of them was Dakota and the other one was me. Dakota was trying 19 and I was 13 but we were young enough to run for president of the U.S.A because the age to run for president was dropped to 13 and older. So far Dakota had the most votes. He had 100…