General election

Elections are the most fundamental aspect of democracy. Through elections, individuals have the ability to choose who they believe will best represent them and who will work towards the betterment of their community. Many Canadians are very familiar with the way in which they elect representatives on a federal and provincial level. The way in which we elect individuals at these levels is usually very similar. However, more variety in electoral systems and unique results of elections can be…

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

(2). We often discover that it is caused by a user error. Therefore, North Carolina should keep their voting machines because they are less time consuming, cheaper, and most importantly, all votes are recorded and saved on a disk. First of all, election voting are much more efficient than paper ballots. With paper ballots, the line would be longer. It would take more time to mark ballots compared to just touching the screen on the machine. Decision would…

contestation then a nation is democratic. Argentina as of 2015 election fulfilled each requirement. President Mauricio Macri, Combiomos, is the first explicit conservative president since 1916. (2015, December 01) Each year multiple parties ran however only one was ever getting enough votes to be elected into office. The primary party that had been winning was called “Front for Victory” and was the party Marci defeated in the runoff election November of 2015. (2015, November 23). As previously…

modern history it may seem like electoral votes are already set in stone, that is not always true. In fact, there are various factors that contribute to the overall outcome of both the nomination of a candidate, and subsequently, the presidential election. Furthermore, in a presidential campaign, candidates must maintain awareness about state primaries and caucuses (“Presidential Campaigns”). Both state primaries and caucuses are a means of choosing their presidential nominees, however the…

behave during her teen years. The issue behind this cartoon is that there are portions of young voters who are not in favor or support Hillary as much as they support Bernie Sanders. Hillary Clinton is a democratic candidate for the presidential election who’s hated by…

In the most recent election Donald Trump won, even though he got 380,000 fewer votes than Hillary Clinton. Most people who came out to vote on election day wanted Hillary Clinton to be the president, but still Trump ended up winning. How is this possible? What kind of system is this in which the person who gets more votes actually ends up losing? This scenario is only possible through the Electoral College. In Electoral College, each state gets number of electorates based on the number of…

Every four years, citizens of the United States of America choose their next president based off a unique system known as the electoral college. The way that this system works is interesting and is confused easily in the general public. In early November, when citizens go to the polls, they are not voting for the president directly, rather they are voting for their individual states to cast its electoral votes towards a certain presidential candidate. In the forty-eight of the fifty states where…

some signs of change approaching, and in recent years’ electoral reform has been a strong point of most political campaigns. Most recently in 2015 Trudeau announced he would have done away with the first-past-the-post method in time for the next election. Furthermore five provinces have debated, in some form, the implementation of a new electoral system. The current electoral system is not effective in representing Canadian votes in government, and often creates a misrepresentation of Canadian…

past few election cycles in America. Lawmakers have been working quickly to enact these laws around the country since the contested 2000 election. These laws have risen out of a so-called need to combat widespread voter fraud in our elections; however, the laws are coming from one end of the political spectrum and have the tendency to only benefit that side 's electoral achievements. At the end of the day, everyone can agree that it is important to ensure the integrity of American elections;…