General election

judicial elections are partisan. The candidates run for the office as Democrats or Republicans and the voters see the party labels on the ballot. Candidates are chosen based on their partisan affiliation just like those who run for presidency. According to Wallace B. Jefferson, the newly retired Chief Justice of Texas's Supreme Court, the way Texas selects its judges is wrong. In the article “Chief Justice Condemns Judicial Elections” he points at the problems inherent in judicial elections in…

against minority parties and leads to non-accurate election results. The large amount of wasted votes is also a major criticism associated with the FPTP system. Recently, the Alternative Vote System is recognized as a way to increase fairness and improve election results. AV eliminates discrimination, makes votes worthy, and improves government functioning. Therefore, this essay analyzes the problems with FPTP with statistical evidence from past elections of the United Kingdom, and proposes…

first Tuesday of November in the years divisible by four the people of the United States gather and head to the polls to cast their votes for the general election in order to select public officials, including the president and their running mate. However, each vote does not have a direct say in who will win the election. In the span of democratic elections in America there have been five instances where the popular vote and the electoral college did not agree and, thus a president was selected…

Starting in 1967 The General Assembly approved a constitutional amendment to elect non-partisan judges to both the Supreme and Appellate Courts. This system allows justices and judges to stand unopposed for a retention vote in the general election. An approval vote starts a new ten-year term for the incumbent judge or justice. A rejection makes the office vacant for appointment. Judges in the lower levels are still chosen by election. With a few exceptions, most candidates for the trial…

mandatory voting in the March of 2015, he related, “If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country,” Voter participation is at an all-time low with only 36.4% of eligible voters casting ballots in the 2014 midterm elections. The problems that arise from low voter turnout are numerous, but the most influential impact from not voting is this – Politicians only care about individuals who vote, and if only certain groups are voting those are the groups…

presidential election was a unique election cycle in the sense that it did not follow normal election cycle protocol, and the result was one that has rarely occurred in American history, where a candidate wins the popular vote, yet loses the Electoral College and the presidency. A small majority of Americans wanted Secretary Clinton to be President, yet Mr. Trump won the Electoral College and 2016 Presidential Election. Even though Secretary Clinton won the popular vote, she still lost the…

in History, Women’s Studies, and Public Relations from McMaster University. Her opposing view of editorials expresses the disgruntlement of the general population in spinning the loser of a popular vote into a winner of an election. Not only does this out-cry resonates in United States, but also in Canada. As she points out, the Canadian federal election elected a liberal Trudeau, with more votes against Trudeau than in his favor. This is similar to the…

the Electoral College. It is these voters, picked by the general population, who choose the President. The Constitution allocates every state a number of electors equivalent to the combined total of the state's Senate and House of Representatives commission at present, the quantity of electors per state ranges from three to 54, for a sum of 538. Individuals really vote in favor of a group of electors when they go to the voting polls on Election Day. These electors have agreed to support a…

entirely complex and certainly disputed question – why is it that people vote for the SNP? Forming in 1934 and seeing very little success in the following years: the SNP first started to make an impact in 1967 in taking its first by-election, then in 1974 with its election of 11 MPs to the UK parliament - which saw the SNPs first successes in having the prospect of devolution and even independence pushed into the…

National Apathy Day” published in The New York Times, Will Durst mocks the voter’s general lack of interest in voting. Durst 's sarcasm is evident throughout the essay as he picks fun at the voter 's excuses. Flaws that exist in the election system are also mocked by Durst. The election system is kept ineffective to keep it weak and not give the people power. Durst alludes to the fact that voters inactivity in the election process leads to problems in their community. Durst 's use of sarcasm…