Voting system

As most Americans know, the United States political system is run mostly by two major parties: the Republicans and the Democrats. These two parties have had a hold on political offices for over a hundred years; as a result, they are constantly competing with each other for majority ruling completely alienating the smaller parties. However, the big two do not leave very much room for the smaller groups to have an impacted in politics; in fact, they are set up to hardly be able to compete because…

the possibility of winning the state, but not having the majority of the votes. Although Gerrymandering is illegal in many places, political parties do not hesitate in doing so. When Gerrymandering occurs it also limits the importance of minority voting. Gerrymandering is a challenge…

Roosevelt once said, “Nobody will ever the deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting” (“Famous Voting Quotes”). If citizens of the United States of America have the right to vote, why do the citizens not vote in the Democracy that gives voting privilege? The United States of America is set up as a Democracy. Therefore, the citizens eligible to vote are responsible for selecting representatives.…

Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic Primaries, there has been much speculation concerning the accuracy of vote counts. Quite clearly some startling mistakes have occurred. However, Clinton’s victory was decisive enough to conclude that the minimal voting error is not statistically significant. Understanding the field of statistics is necessary to make judgements about the polls. Statistics is all about valid collection and interpretation of data. In order to…

From what we learned in class and what I understood of Hamilton’s arguments it is an outdated and frankly somewhat elitist system. First Hamilton makes the point that the electors are more educated and therefore more qualified to elect the president. I have two issues with this. One, as whole our population is more educated than they were when the constitution was written…

founding fathers implemented the system, it made sense because most of the population was illiterate and uninformed; the early Americans needed a leader make the best decision on their behalf. Today, the American citizens are educated and have the means to make the correct decision for themselves. Popular vote should be the means of election because the Electoral College fails to represent everyone equally and, it is unfit for a democracy. The Electoral College system of electing fails to…

Prior to playing the gerrymandering game, I knew that it was the manipulation of districts in order to gain a political advantage of some kind. It is possible to do this because the districts have to be redrawn based on updated census data, as population is always changing. I also knew that it is difficult for the opposing party to win an election when the controlling party gerrymandered the district to favor them. While playing the game, I learned that it is difficult to adjust the districts…

and state positions however state and local committees can focus on spreading the agenda of the presidential election while the national focuses largely on the candidates campaign itself (Maloney, 2013, p. 8). In order to prevent the abuse of this system and prevent a candidate from using an unlimited amount of funds towards their election, restrictions are placed on the amount that can come from each group. From individuals a maximum amount per election cycle of 2,600…

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…

In the world we live in, there are different ways to vote and different states to vote in. In Texas they do things quite differently there. In Texas whomever is voting, they are required to have identification. People can vote in Texas as long they have some sort of identification. Although not every citizen of Texas approve of this method. As of October 18, 2014 Texas was acquired a voter ID law for the upcoming election. There a lot of controversy about the voter ID laws, this has caused…