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Brazil, Germany, and the United Kingdom have extended voting rights for 16 year olds and all have historically better voter turnout then the United States. Advocates for lowering the voting age argue that it could increase government responsiveness and help reinvigorate our democracy. In state after state and around the world, allowing young people to vote in elections has had a real positive effects. Many states in our country have extended voting rights to 17 year olds to vote in primaries to…

Elections are important and everyone has a right to vote. However there have been practices that have been attempting to stop people from voting such as qualifications on race, property ownership, religion, and so forth (pg 493). Elections now have open up the voting pool to any American citizen with minor acceptations. Before many qualifications were required to vote in elections and as year gone by, people have fought courageously for right of representation…

Should Voting be Mandatory? Barack Obama spoke about mandatory voting in the March of 2015, he related, “If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country,” Voter participation is at an all-time low with only 36.4% of eligible voters casting ballots in the 2014 midterm elections. The problems that arise from low voter turnout are numerous, but the most influential impact from not voting is this – Politicians only care about individuals who vote, and if only…

statistics for Congressional Elections during the period between 1978 and 2014 individuals with a Bachelor’s degree were twenty percentage points more likely to vote than individuals whose highest level of education was a High School degree, and the voting rate for those who have attained an advanced degree (Masters, PHD, etc...) was shown to be nearly double that of the group who had only attained a high school diploma. (File, 6) Though the number of Americans who had registered to vote during…

This essay will address Labour Parties electoral performance in the 2010 and 2015 General Election. There are several factors that affected Labours performance in both the 2010 and 2015 General Elections. For example; the economy, the growth in power for the SNP, party identification, introduction of challenger parties, leadership Add more factors. Considering that Labour are formally a left-wing party means that they tend to care more about society than the economy. As a result, Labour have…

The president’s party’s consistent voters within the presidential elections might not come out to vote as passionately as they might had they not won the presidential election. Therefore, fewer voters who support the president’s party, voting within the midterm elections might cause the opposing party to achieve a majority and win seats from the president’s party. Differences amongst support for the presidential election and also the midterm election may be seen through the varying levels…

Now many people are not involved into voting because they feel as if it does not count, they are not well enough informed, or they do not have time. Also, if a person does not personally have to reregister by themselves they will have more time to vote. For example, in Australia, they have a democracy where it is mandatory to vote, the reason why voting turnouts are extremely higher than Americas. This way the government and leaders will know what…

An Analysis of the Historical Development of Successful Democratic Institutions in India The problem of “third world status” has been a major barrier to the development of India as a democratic government throughout the 20th century. British colonialism provided the foundation for a parliamentary system in India, which soon become a means in which Indian nationalism arose and overthrew the occupiers through democratization and popular support. However, over the course of Indian independence in…

It has been established by our Founding Fathers that the nation is to run on a government in which the power of the officials is limited and subject to the say of the people. A guarantee of this principle is the form of government in which America holds today. Although the system is seemingly ideal, it can develop deep cracks that root to problems and controversy over power and constitutionality. The operations of interest groups, political parties, and election campaigns play large factors into…

went through tough decisions on deciding what is best for our nation’s voting process and they concluded with the Electoral College. Overall it promotes good government and it attributes to our diverse nation. “The abolition of state-by-state, winner-take-all electoral votes would speed the disintegration of the already weakened two-party system” (Arthur Schlesinger). The Framers of America wanted our country to have a voting system that wouldn’t hurt the nation in an inefficient way. Although…