Proxy voting

eligible to vote, have a say in their future. There are many characteristics of democracy including, power is limited by elected representatives; central governments are prevented from gaining power by these representatives. Also, civilians who meet voting qualifications take part in unaltered, unpaid elections. Each society has their own variety of democracy. The two known varieties are direct and representative. Direct, means a qualified citizen is able to vote without a representative;…

Authoritarian government is very different than a Democracy for many reasons, but I will describe two. The democracy has an election to tell who is the leader and in an authoritarian they are forced into it. Also, the authoritarian government has unlimited power over their people and democracy has a certain amount of power they can have. These are just a couple of ways they are different. A democracy lets the people vote for who they want as a leader (President) and authoritarian is forced to…

citizens participate and decide to vote. When Americans decide to exclude themselves from voting, they initially are negatively impacting society. Thomas Patterson takes his stance on this when he wrote “The Vanishing Voter”. In “The Vanishing Voter”, he discusses the impact nonvoters have on society. Patterson’s goal is to persuade citizens to participate in voting and to educate nonvoters to realize voting is something that all citizens should be included in. Patterson wrote “The Vanishing…

This means that the people hold control of its destiny, voting in every decision and being able to be elected to technically any public office available (Blackwell, 2003). However, it’s well known that not all the people participated in this hectic political life in the Ancient Athens, being the slaves, and women…

president with their campaign. When people vote at churches or schools or other public areas, these votes rarely matter. These votes influence the electoral college, which are the real votes that decide the next President. The electoral college is a voting system where a group of people from each state cast their votes for the whole state based on popular majority. Some people want the electoral college abolished, but it should not be. The electoral college it is an efficient way to pick the…

I personaly think in my opinion, that the voting age should be lowered to age 16. Lowering the voting age would have some very positive outcomes. Since America is trying to have a growth in people who do participate in voting, this will inevitably add to the percentage of voters. Letting more people eligible to vote means the higher the percentage. There is though the argument of young people not being as interested or involed as the elderly. With percentages backing that statement up.…

Jose Mujica, the former president of Uruguay, was a very humble man. He was a man who loved life and explained that he hoped, “to present [himself]… like someone who goes into a bar and says to the bartender, “This round is on me!”” He wanted others to see the positivity and happiness that radiated from him and he wanted to stand out because of this reason. He believed that he was happy with what he had unlike most people who were always looking to buy more than what they needed. Mujica saw this…

AOW- Should Voting Be Mandatory? Voting Should be mandatory in the United States. The article “Should voting be Mandatory” is about how the author thinks voting should be mandatory for people over 18. One reason is because it would make people pay more attention to which president the citizens are voting for. Another reason that voting should be mandatory is that congress may actually pay more attention to things that now there ignoring. Some people may think that voting should still be…

In this political cartoon by John Ohman which is unnamed represents the image of how voters or more specifically younger teens see Hillary Clinton. The author's purpose of this political cartoon is to show that Hillary Clinton is trying to hard to get young voters attention. John Ohman’s argument is Hillary Clinton is trying to hard to appeal to young voters by perfectly showing that Hillary Clinton trying to get into their shoes and behaving the way that teens used to behave during her teen…

On the 3rd of November in 1948, presidential candidate Harry S. Truman famously waved a copy of the Chicago Tribune reading, “Dewey Defeats Truman”. Also, a photo was taken on the platform of the St. Louis Union Station which housed the Ferdinand Magellan, the first ‘presidential train car’ used by Truman to host the initial whistle-stop campaign (Goldzwig). However, the United States has come a long way since the days of fliers, megaphones, and campaigns by railroads; instead, the media and…