Primary election

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…

regulation of election are also being raised, especially considering the fact that federal standard have broader law such as the Voting Rights Act and relevant constitutional provisions. When we look at the voter I.D Law we have…

everyone has the same possibility on winning. Money plays a large role on everything and even more on a political campaign. “Unlike The federal government, except for the judicial election, Texas does not limit the amount of money anyone can contribute to a state political campaign.” The ability to donate money to a election campaign is a form of political expression in a free speech that is projected by the Texas Constitution and the U.S. Constitution. If a limit does not exist it is difficult…

It is no secret that the presidential election is a muddy process. Between campaigns, debates, endorsements, primary elections and everything else involved in the candidate process, the path to be becoming president is definitely not a stroll in the park. However, as long as a candidate has the right plans coupled with the right flair and can get the majority of the votes of the US citizens, he or she has nothing standing between him or her and the oval office, right? Unfortunately, there is one…

Social media is not only influencing the personal lives of millions of people, but the presidential election and politics as well. In 2017, across all social media platforms, there were 2.51 billion users in the world (Statista). It is projected that that number will rise to nearly 3 billion users by 2020 alone (Statista). In America, over 80% of the population uses the internet for many various reasons (Pewinternet social-media-update). Since the number of people in America using the internet…

In Australia, there is currently a dual electoral system. In the House of Representatives (lower house), there are 150 single-member seats with preferential voting (Find source). However in the Senate (upper house), there is a single-transferable proportional vote (STV) for each multi-member state (Find source). The proportional representation electoral system is believed to, according to Duverger’s Law, lead to a multi-party system (Find source). Despite this, the Australian House of…

In the 2000 presidential election, most people were prepared to accept that Al Gore would be the next president even though he would likely lose the popular vote. However, the opposite happened. George Bush won the presidency through a small margin of electoral votes, but had lost the popular vote of the people. This election is an example of how the Electoral College diminishes the importance of the votes of the people. Most people know of the electoral college, they have read about it in their…

not being responsible and reviewing what the leaders that we vote in power believe in or what they can do for communities and our country. By looking at local and federal election data, and other areas of research, we will see what voters in the Great Lakes states are thinking about when they cast their vote during an elections season. After being divided most of the 20th Century, we will see why voters have directed their loyalty to the Democratic Party but the most important question that…

The 2016 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…

Electoral Dysfunction is a Participatory Non-fiction Documentary that follows Mo Rocca as he learns about the electoral college and voting. In the first scene Mo starts off and asks people where voting is a right or a privilege and 4 out of 5 people say that it is a right. After this clear plurality consensus he turns to the Constitution to see what it says, it is then realized that nowhere in the constitution does it acknowledge voting as a right nor a privilege it is simply not brought up.…