Voting system

In the current US election system, citizens do not directly vote for their next President. Instead, there is a group called The Electoral College that carries out that function. Citizens Cast their votes and then those votes are tallied up by state. Once tallied, the Electors, also known as Representatives, of the states go and place their votes. Each state has a certain amount of electoral votes placed by those electors. Whoever those Electors vote for is to whom all the electoral votes of that…

Canada were tired of the Conservative party that led to this change. Second it will argue that the relative similarity of the parties made the pragmatic voting easier. Third it will show how this pragmatic decision coupled by an influx of new un-aligned voters allowed the Liberal party to achieve its victory. Finally it will discuss how the electoral system in Canada influenced the Liberal victory. Going into the election season Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister at the time, was incredibly…

pledged delegates to put the final state vote in. The election process needs to be changed, there are several fixes that could be implemented into Congress to fix the electoral system in the United States. The Electoral College takes the power away from the citizens that they should have in a modern democracy, like voting directly for presidential candidates most importantly. According to Jerry Fresia, "None of our rights have been handed down; they have all been won through resistance.…

In contemporary America, Donald Trump, is the latest example of a flaw built directly into the American political system: an electoral system in which the majority rules and there is no minority representation, because the winner takes all. Except, in the 2016 American presidential election, the majority winner did not win; Trump lost the popular vote to Clinton by over 2.8 million votes. Therefore, the Trump phenomenon is not the end of democracy as we know it, or even the end of the world. The…

Harris Miller, President of the Information Technology Association of America ensures that electronic voting machines are more safe and secure than paper ballots. EVM's are known to help people with disabilities from audio for the hearing impaired and video for people with reduced vision as well as hand held for those who have trouble standing. It's said that 33.7 million people have disabilities and 20% are less likly to vote because there is minium accessibility for them. EVM's provide…

paradox of voting. While many political scientists focused on individual level explanations for voter turnout, many comparative politics scholars focused on the institutional level explanation…

through the case study of Britain will be on the disproportionate underrepresentation of minority parties in British parliament. To understand why there is an underrepresentation of minority parties it is necessary to analyse the British electoral system, first past the post. The country is split into 650 constituencies and to win a constituency the party needs to win more votes than any other party (a relative majority) not an actual majority of votes. The winners of each constituency make up…

In recent history there has been multiple attempts to alter or completely swap the New Zealand flag, starting in 1973(John Moody, N.D) and recently when John Key proposed the idea in 2014 before the elections(Isaac Davison, 2014). It has been decided that two binding referendums will be used to decide the future of the New Zealand flag(Paul Goldsmith, 2015) one to pick out the best six flags and another referendum at a later date to decide what one the six should be used. A referendum is a vote…

The democratic process that allows democracy to exist, is fair as far as allowing citizens that are qualified to participate in voting and making important decisions, be able to vote. In my opinion it is also not fair or just a waste of time since the most popular vote does not count. Even though the votes do not hold a lot in the presidential election, by giving eligible members of each state equal rights to vote is fair to me. Some individuals come from other countries and they are not able to…

A stress point and inherent flaw of the American Republic is the issue of the first pass the post system. The first pass the post system is used in almost all of the local, state and federal elections in the United States. In theory, first pass the post is a simple and effective way for the electorate to be represented. One vote per citizen and most votes wins ensuring at least a plurality of voters will have a say in the government. However, a plurality doesn’t necessarily mean a majority and…