Votes

Members of Congress have many important responsibilities, one of those is to vote. Hundreds of times a year they are called upon to vote on bills, motions, and amendments. Members of Congress go through a process of information gathering, overlooking expert opinions, and considering their personal judgement before voting. Considering the amount of times Congress members vote, they have become accustomed to the particular sides to different public policy issues. No matter how well they think…

said that “The vote is precious. It is almost sacred. It’s the most nonviolent tool we have in a democratic society and we’ve got to use it”. As a young girl I thought anyone over the age of 18 could vote. Some of my thinking was right, but some of it was wrong. I’m also going to talk about voting in the past and how horrible it was. Not everyone can vote. For example felons and immigrants, and that's what i'm going to be talking about today in this essay. Who can and cannot vote. Im also going…

electors chosen by a state to carry that state’s vote for president to Congress. It was created to make a compromise between the options for election by the popular vote of the general public and election based on Congress’s vote (“What is the Electoral College?” 1-2), but since then many states have changed its choices and forms of voting in order to please the citizens within those states. Because of states’ wanting to change their formal choice to popular vote and there are two different…

November drew renewed attention to the importance of the youth vote as well as the challenges that the youth voters face. Statistically, young voters can make a huge difference in the outcome of an election. In 2010, the turnout of young adults ages 18 to 25 to vote was just 21%. In the 2012 election for president, Obama earned at least 61% of young voters in Florida Virginia Pennsylvania and Ohio. If Romney had of split the youth vote with Obama he could have won all together. Why are Georgia…

The electoral votes are spread in a way that is meant to give smaller states more power. However instead it serves to take power out of the hands of the people. The map of USA Electoral Votes shows that the minimum amount of electoral votes a state can have is 3. This creates a situation in which Wyoming has 3 votes, while California has 55. (Doc 4) This is overall an unfair representation of the population and their beliefs. It gives a state with 563,000 people 3 electoral votes, and a state…

drive at 16, why don't we trust them to vote? An irresponsible driver can do much more harm than an irresponsible voter” (NY times). In comparison, if a teen driver wants to fool around and act cool on the road, the poor decision could prove to be dangerous and even cost that person their lives. But, if that same person fools around and votes for an unprepared candidate, that won’t do easily as much damage as one vote is a tiny speck in an ocean of overall votes. So if reckless driving can cause…

The right to vote is a central part of any democracy, but most democratic countries have significant limits on who can and cannot vote. According to Professor Christopher Uggen, there are 5.6 million Americans of voting age who are disenfranchised by state laws that “restrict voting rights for those convicted of serious crimes.” In eleven US states even “ex-felons” who have served their sentence and parole are still prohibited from voting. In 1976, 1.2 million people living in America lost…

seemed a bit more understandable and not mysterious. I was at first lost on what to vote since I did not quite understand what we would get from voting 1 or 0. When we were told to vote, I did not think much about it and decided to just write down a number. I voted 1 because I honestly thought that voting 0 was weird. When the professor was counting the votes for 0, I was quite shocked. Many people decided to vote 0 although they knew they were choosing to have less money. Finally, those that…

One push of a button is all that it takes to cast a vote. The act of voting is such a menial task, yet we (the Millennial generation) continue to neglect the election polls. The question remains, why do Millennials refuse to vote? Perhaps the answer lies in the notion that voting is an ineffective method to solve political issues. An overwhelming majority of us would argue that there are alternative forms of political action that exist which are more effective than voting. Some of these other…

Direct popular vote could cause for a series of problems and there is a reason for why it is not used in order to decide the constitutional amendments. The biggest reason can be found in the fact that if an idea can catch onto the public, it will capture and convince the opinions of over fifty percent of a direct popular vote. In the situation that this scenario does occur, it would cause for major threats across the United States as a whole. A similar effect could be seen early on in the essay…