Electronic voting

America: The Rebellious Teenager Our Founding Fathers warned us about two-party systems, but we didn’t listen. Thinking we knew better, we began functioning under one anyway. The American two-party system has never been beneficial for our country. This year especially, the flaws of operating under a two-party system are displayed clearly in the 2016 Presidential Election. With a Republican nominee that has less experience than any candidate we have ever seen, and a Democratic nominee that can’t…

spikes around presidential elections. Why are people not voting and is it really affecting outcome? People of certain ages, gender, ethnicity, and education have a tendency to vote in a certain way that makes the two party system struggle for equal standing. As a general rule voting rates are higher during presidential elections than in congressional elections. An example in the 2014 congressional election had about forty-two percent of the voting populace active and in the 2012 presidential…

Is The Electoral College Fair? The controversy over whether or not the electoral college is fair has been happening since it was created. Many people don 't agree with how the electoral college does not reflect the true majority of votes but the electors votes instead. Others think that the electoral college was created for a reason and offers a voice to minority voters too. The electoral college is an interesting process that many people disagree with but many people realize that it was created…

Through the Bernie Sanders Campaign, I learned much about the workings and effects of campaigns. Campaigns depend strongly on our social nature as humans and have the ability to shape cultures around them. They also impact the political environment surrounding the elections. As is their purpose campaigns play a large role in the election process. Campaigns are reliant on human nature. In order to become involved with a campaign, a potential volunteer usually needs to know someone who is already…

Introduction People always have something to say about politicians and how ordinary individuals from the streets can do the politicians jobs better than they can. I had the keen opportunity to test that theory and was able to step into the shoes of a mock politician through a political simulation. I was put into a tough situation where I had to make choices that caused me to not be able to please everyone. Today I will describe my duties and decision making process through the simulation of or…

Almost every person in America knows the preamble of the Constitution, or has at least heard it before. “We the people…” it begins, which means our country is based on the principle of popular sovereignty, meaning that the citizens of the country have the final say in their government. However, some delegates of the Republican National Committee (RNC), are trying to undermine this principle that our founding fathers fought for. This process they are trying to pursue is not only undemocratic, but…

Attacks, rumors, and gossip have been one of the leading tactics to highlight politician fallacies. To win the hearts of the Americans, they have to use negative tactics to make Americans believe their side or vote on their particular issue. Harassing a politician has been the easiest way to make the opposing side look its best. American politics have attacked people to show to the world how flawed a person is and as a result that person has flawed thinking/ideals. Attacks in politics are the…

self-preservation” (Rousseau 1). Freedom is one thing every human needs. It’s a basic way of life, free but not 100% free since people will abuse it and try to use their freedom as an excuse in court. Being able to do many political activities like voting or joining some political party freely no matter you skin color or any other restriction is freedom, if you weren 't accepted then it’s just racist. Locke states, “Man being born, as has been proved, with a title to perfect freedom, and an…

The vast majority of democracies in the world select their president by popular vote. In the United States, however, an electoral college is chosen by the people which in turn elects a president. This system was chosen because of the United States’ unique make up of individual states. The electoral college is a group of electors, elected by the people, that vote for the president. Each state is given a number of electors equal to the number of house representatives they have, plus two…

wrote in his Article, The Pros and Cons of the Electoral College System, “in 1988, for example, the combined voting age population (3,119,000) of the seven least populous jurisdiction of Alaska, Delaware, the District of Columbia, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming carried the same voting strength in the Electoral College (21 Electoral votes) as the 9,614,000 persons of voting age in the State of Florida. Each Floridian 's potential vote, then, carried about one third the weight of…