Votes

Every Vote Counts: Don’t Skip Out of the Election Throughout the campus and community, you hear people complaining about the election. While some love one candidate or another, many express a desire to see none of the candidates win. “Why vote when I don’t like any candidate, besides what difference does a vote make?” many ask. According to the 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…

should have the right to vote in their article, “Debate: Should Prisoners Be Allowed to Vote?” Elizabeth Hull discusses if prisoners should have the right to vote once they have completed their sentence in her article, “Felons Deserve the Right to Vote”. Also, in yet another article, “Florida’s Former Felons” Elizabeth Hull discusses if prisoners should have the right to vote once released from prison. To begin with, prisoners should not have the right to vote in prison because they…

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 because the…

One Man, One Vote: An Analysis of Faithless Electors Just a quarter century ago, 71% of United States’ residents had “a great deal” of confidence in the President (Gallup). Today, that number resides at approximately 33% (Gallup). Many reasons have been proposed to explain the decreased confidence both in the Presidency and Congress, which has seen about a 20% drop since 1991, but there is still debate among scholars as to what exactly contributes to this issue (Gallup). Regardless of who the…

return, no longer votes for any candidate. The trust has been broken between the constituents and the political figures in power who no longer represent the ideology of the voters’ neighborhood. Using a misguided reality of how the politician rose to office without a popular vote, the newly elected implements their own agenda, passing it on as a mandate of the people (Shkimba, “Trump Was Right, the System is Rigged”). The 2016 election has sparked a fierce debate between the popular votes…

put in a vote for one person just for it to be tampered with or dismissed. EVMs are easier, faster, and more reliable than paper ballots. Electronic voting machines draw in a lot more votes because of the simple fact that it's easier. People who have disabilities with hearing, vision, or even standing can vote with ease. The passage, "Everyone Should Be Able to Vote" states, "The United States has 33.7 million people of voting age with disabilities. They are 20% less likely to vote,…

In the poem Making Sarah Cry and the article, Susan B Anthony Dares To Vote! the theme is being dIfferent. The theme is being different in Making Sarah Cry because Sarah was unlike the rest; She was slow and not as smart, And it would seem to all his friends She was born without a heart. The theme is being different in Susan B Anthony Dares To Vote!” also because After charging her with voting on November 5, 1872, he added, At that time she was a woman. Even some members of the jury smiled.…

roughly 5.3 million Americans won't be allowed to vote. It isn't because they're underage or non-citizens or mentally incompetent. It isn't because they're unregistered or physically unable to get to the polls. It isn't even because they're limping around with a chronic case of political apathy. The reason they can't vote is that they're felons. Oh, well. Felons, you say. They're criminals, for Pete's sake. Of course they shouldn't have the right to vote. But why is that, exactly? In places…

The smoking age currently is 18, and with that age typically comes a whole new set of responsibilities like signing up for the draft, being able to vote, and the ability to smoke legally. With most of these newfound responsibilities, you are educated on what to do. How to pay your taxes, how to sign up for a voting registration, etc.. But no one ever tells adolescents the downsides of smoking before their body has fully matured. The lungs are not done fully growing until teens are around 21,…

different states after the war. In the south, racial hostilities toward african americans continued to occur throughout the reconstruction era. President Abraham Lincoln before his death recommended that some freed African Americans should be permitted to vote. African Americans struggled to gain their full citizenship and political rights due to many difficult and violent…