Electronic voting

The government’s role regarding voter ID laws should to make a federal law stating that all needed in order to vote is a social security number. This is because voter ID laws suppress both racial and socioeconomic minorities, and waste huge amounts of money that can be spent making it easier to vote across the whole country, fulfilling the 15th amendment, and ultimately our democracy as well. In addition to the facts regarding how minorities are suppressed through these laws that I have already…

Voting law opponents contend these laws disproportionately affect elderly, minority and low-income groups that tend to vote Democratic. Obtaining photo ID can be costly and burdensome. While many states with strict laws offer a free state ID for people without any other way to vote, these IDs require documents like a birth certificate that can cost up to $25 in some places. According to a study from NYU’s Brennan Center, 11 percent of voting-age citizens lack necessary photo ID while many people…

countries. Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act is a piece of legislation that most immigrants, perhaps even most Americans, are unfamiliar with. It states that if over five percent (or 200,000 persons) in a political subdivision are a minority language group, then election materials in their native language, as well as oral assistance, must legally be provided to them (“Minority Language Citizens”). If voting eligible immigrants were aware of this fact, then voting rates among them could…

when it comes to voting in the United States. In You Decide, we go over two individual’s point of view, Hans von Spakovsky and Shelia Jackson Lee. Spakovsky believes it protects the integrity of elections, while Lee believes it suppresses voter turnout. Hans von Spakovsky immediately defines his argument on photo identification by bullet pointing his reasons for supporting photo IDs, for example, he says it prevents “voting under fictitious voter registrations” and “double voting by…

John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, once said, “always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost” (Pine, 14). Although, Adam’s notion of voting your conscience seems reasonable there is a definite line between a candidate’s assumed and genuine truth that frequently goes unnoticed. American citizens rarely have the privilege to vote in an election that has avoided the dilemma of choosing a…

Kids will usually go to the class that interests them the most. There is a massive group of kids that would enjoy learning politics , current events and discussion about said things. This will be discussing why there should be a class about politics and how it would benefit students as future voters. The problem in modern America or atleast a big one is kids don't care about current events. This would help remedy that by informing them, teaching them, and helping them understand their…

Constitution as a compromise between the votes of the people of the United States, and the electors of the United States, where citizens vote to assist their electors who will hopefully vote as their state did. But the main question a majority of voting citizens asks, is the Electoral College fair, and is the Electoral college trouble for the United States as a country built on democracy? Even greater, is it time to dispose of the process? With that being said; yes the Electoral College is…

The sole purpose of the Electoral College is to bring balance regarding the voting of the President and Vice President amid the congress and the voting citizens. Although, during the past times, the voting of the President and the Vice President was solely to the Congress as they are the appropriate entity that represents the public opinion. Edmund stated in his speech regarding to the Bristol…

The electoral college is an antiquated system of voting that gives ultimate power to representatives of each state. Some people believe that it is necessary in order to maintain a fair representation of each state, but the electoral college is outdated, only sways how presidential candidates campaign, and obscures the true popular vote. When the constitution was written, voters had few opportunities to learn about candidates, so the job of elector was given to a large group of government people…

From September 23, 2015 to October 3, 2015 I conducted a survey with 22 current students enroll at The University of Texas at San Antonio if they think Electoral College should be abolished or not. In the survey I conducted, 18 college students believe Electoral College should be abolished and 4 believe it should not be abolished. The percentage is 18% believe Electoral College should not be abolish and the remaining 82% believe it should. The results of my Margin Error is 20.89. The 95%…