Votes at 16

"Why Older Citizens Are More Likely To Vote". US News & World Report. N.p., 2012. Web. 23 Apr. 2016. DelReal, Jose. "Voter Turnout In 2014 Was The Lowest Since WWII". Washington Post. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Apr. 2016. "Electoral College Mysteries Revealed". The Huffington Post. N.p., 2012. Web. 19 Apr. 2016. Esaili, Hanan. The Huffington Post. N.p., 2015. Web. 23 Apr. 2016…

Politicians are manipulating your votes. In our republic, the views of the people are supposed to be represented through the officials they elect. However, in many states, including our own, this idea of a republic is under attack. Our state legislature is being tried on accounts of illegal partisan gerrymandering. The Democrat led legislature drew districts with the goal of maintaining their party’s power in the state legislature. The result of this gerrymandering was an overrepresented…

I have chosen Thomas Nast’s March 16, 1867 cartoon picture, “The Georgetown Election—The Negro at the Ballot Box,” as my primary source. The cartoon’s setting is Georgetown and people are in line to vote for Andrew Jackson as a president. And it features an African-American man standing in line to vote and two white men glaring at them. The African-American man is dressed up in low class clothes. He took off his hat when he puts his vote in the glass ballot box. A white man lined up behind the…

In 1854 there was slavery African Americans couldn’t vote, or even have a say so on anything. African Americans couldn’t have any rights to anything, and they had owners. During slavery times African Americans had to get beaten, and white people bought them for slaves. Today there is no slavery, or slave leaders, everyone has a right to freedom of speech. Everyone can vote except for people who are felons, or…

3/4 of the states in Seven years. 23: Section 1: This gave the residents of D.C the right to vote (prior you needed to be a resident of a state to vote) It also gave them electoral college votes(3). 24: Section 1: This was passed during the height of the Southern racism era. It banned taxes on voting/ obscure requirements and reassured United States citizens the right to vote. Section 2: The Congress has the power to enforce this…

Being freed from slavery was a wish come true for the blacks, but this wish was not fulfilled by the Americans. From not being allowed to vote in many states and having restrictions on voting, to being banned from integrating with the whites, and to give up on one’s education, blacks in the North were not free as they should have been. They were ripped away from several basic rights, such…

core duties and guarantees that it keeps pace with current advancing dangers. It likewise requires the arrangement of a Department of Homeland far-reaching Coordinator for Counterterrorism to coordinate the board. H.R. 4407 was passed on May 16, 2016, by a vote (Homeland Security Committee, 2016). Under the enactment, the Department of Homeland Security would be responsible for various activities went for Countering Terrorist Radicalization. The department will be responsible of surveying the…

New York's governor 444-87 electoral votes."Herbert Hoover." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 9 Nov. 2015.…

During the 1860 election, Abraham Lincoln has been elected for the presidency which has resulted in the secession of the state of Mississippi. There was some opposition to whether seceding was the right choice to make within the state of Mississippi because it would eventually result in a war. The state of Mississippi was unsure if they should wait on other Southern states to secede from the Union or start the movement themselves. With Mississippi being aware that they would not be able to stop…

majority in the primaries in 8 states can go on the ballot, which only Trump and Ted Cruz have done. Also, rule 16 states that in the first ballot, delegates already pledged during the primaries are bound to vote for the same candidate again (Melber). Although highly unlikely, if neither candidate has the majority vote after the first round, those promised candidates are unpromised and can vote for whoever they want, which is fundamentally corrupt because they are no longer representing the…