Votes

it is common to have doubts on who to vote for, but abstaining from voting all together is not the end all solution. There are many outside factors that affect the overall voter turnout— which is low— ranging between 55-60% of eligible voters. Since this is the case, it is important for Americans to embrace democracy and vote to have their voices heard. It is understandable for voters to disagree with parts of a candidate's platform, but neglecting to vote can create underrepresentation for…

eligible population votes in current elections. The most reasonable reason for people not to vote is because of a major event in U.S. history. There have been highs and lows in the amount of voter participation. At an all time high in 1960 at 63.8% of people voting, and at an all time low in 1924 at 48.9%, and around 55% of eligible voters voted this year. Most young people don’t vote on elections, simply because it doesn’t interest them enough to put forth the effort to vote. You see more a…

citizen of the United States under the Constitution? That answer should obviously be no, however in the United States penitentiary system the deprivation of the legal right to vote, also known as disenfranchisement, is quite common. So much so that as of 2006 it was estimated that 5.3 million people were declared ineligible to vote as a result of their conviction, 1.7 million of which have already completed their sentencing and are no longer in prison. Since the late 1990s there has been a large…

direct popular vote system and state or nation-wide population vote. This method however has proven to have potential problems, like in the case of the 2000 presidential election. During this election, George W. Bush and Al Gore came to a difference of less than 1,000 votes in the state of Florida. Because of this over six million votes had to be recounted, this lead to controversy between states when Bush won by decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. Because of the risks the direct popular vote…

it is, or at least how unfair it is. When we vote, we're actually just voting for the people that vote for president. Then, those people get together and cast their ballots for president, and can basically vote for whoever they want, regardless of who we vote for. In the year 2004, there was an elector who cast his ballot for someone called "John Ewards" which was close to the name of John Kerrys' running mate (Ferbes, Nov 4, 2012). That persons vote didn't go to John Kerry, it went to the…

cousin, was shot and killed when caught in the crossfire of an inner city shooting. Trump, in an effort to win “black” votes tweeted: “Dwayne Wade’s cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago. Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!” Donald J. Trump Not only does Trump not communicate how the events even relate to African-American votes, he did not offer his condolences to the family until later, after he had received considerable unhappy feedback from…

2) The winner-take-all system in the electoral college is each state gets so many electoral votes based upon their population. When people within those states vote for the candidate that they choose, the person with the most votes gets all of the electoral votes in that state. While the other candidate(s) get zero electoral votes from that state. How candidates run their campaigns is seriously affected by the winner-take-all system in the electoral college. The campaigns are affected because a…

holiday would mean that voters would not need to take off work to vote and it would be a reminder for those that forget it is the day to cast. Another solution to low turnout would be to increase the ways to absentee vote. Currently, all states offer vote-by-mail the day of the election and some strictly only have this form of voting. However, thirteen states do not allow early voting by mail or early voting in person. If the option to vote early, via mail or in person, was enacted in every…

United States to elect the vice president and the president of the United States (Patterson, 2013). To understand the Electoral College more in depth, one must understand the function and structure of the Electoral College, the comparison of popular votes and the Electoral College, and the benefit a voter has using the Electoral College system. The founding fathers had two primary reasons for creating the Electoral College. The first reason for creating the structure was to give more voting…

As Jane Addams wrote this source on “Why women should vote, 1915”, she directed an issue that women faced during the early twentieth century, known as woman suffrage. In this historical document, Jane Addams explained the importance of a woman’s right to vote. First, she makes a claim that for all centuries it’s evident that a woman’s role is to take care of everything pertaining to her home, including her family. However, Addams explained that women (in general) cannot fully maintain their role…