Voter turnout

I definitely agree with everything that James W. Ceaser stated in his writing. I do firmly believe that strengthened political parties would help our electoral process instead of having ruthless candidates “strengthened” by their organizations and here’s why. Before, candidates used to be chosen by members of the party; they would choose whoever was best fit to carry out the party’s platform the best. Since then, however, this idea has been long gone, which leads parties to have no direct…

Freedom of speech is about having the ability to express yourself even if your views are not accepted. One being able to voice their opinions whether right or wrong helps to initiate discussion from others. This being the generation of social media, a person can see that freedom of speech is becoming more publicized rather than a word of mouth. Mills, argument about free speech leading to maximization of utility can still be applied today. Mills argument is still on point when it comes to the…

The majority of the people surveyed do agree with the Texas voter ID law. The survey was conducted September 23 to September 24 with 15 people surveyed. After calculating the percentage it came out to be 86.7% said yes to the question “The Texas voter ID law requires people to show a state-issued photo ID in order to vote. Do you approve of this law?”. The margin of error came out to be 25.3, which is relatively high due to the small sample size out of the population. The 95% confidence…

Washington Post’s May 12, 2016 article “Why Don’t More Americans Vote in Presidential Elections?” only 67% of the Americans who registered to vote actually cast a ballot in the last presidential election. Since there are around 194 million registered voters, according to this article, that means approximately 65 million people did not vote. Considering that Obama only received 51.1% of the popular…

Majority of the people who can vote are not interested in the elections and that is one major reason why they don't vote. My first reason would be, people don’t like the candidates that may be running for president. My second reason would be a lot of people are very lazy and a lot don’t see the purpose of voting. A lot of people that don’t see the point in voting are the same people that feel as their votes don’t count. One of the final reasons would be, people not caring about the votes, simply…

to go vote. If the government would keep track of all the citizens personal data like our name, birthdate, and social security number. They could make all of our state identification cards swipe into a system to let them know we are a registered voter and are able to vote when we go to cast our ballot. Also with swiping our cards they would know where we were voting at. Also they could incorporate ways of only being able to vote for so many issues. If they gave us a limit people would choose…

With the 2016 presidential election quickly approaching, a popular conversation has been voter fraud and voter suppression. Voter suppression reached headline news with the Arizona state primary, and has been a controversy in the lead up to the presidential election since then. The act of suppressing votes, from both party lines, infringes upon the most fundamental American right; the right to vote in those who will speak on our behalf. It also brings up in interesting existentialist dilemma.…

Inequality in the Elections Do elections actually represent the United States populace? Given the fact that a lot of people do not vote, I do not believe it does. People who have the right to vote have been declining in voter activity with occasional 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…

What is more, I also learned that religion, social class, education, and geographic location are demographic factors that can influence voter participation as well as how people vote. I also did not understand why the wealthy were taxed less than those who were poor, working class, or middle class. Prior to discussions in the lecture I did not understand what No Child Left Behind actually…

houses and to my surprise all the houses we went to everyone had already voted. We had a viewing party to be together as group to watch as the votes were counted so we could see live who was winning. As well as to celebrate our hard work of voter registration and voter outreach. As the day went on and we witnessed who became our new president it was a disgrace, but I know that I went out there and tried my best to inform people and help…