Voting system

the foundation of the democracy falls to pieces. One way to fix this problem is to install a system where it is mandatory for the citizens of the nation to participate in voting, or compulsory voting. Several countries in the world currently have this system in place including Belgium, Luxemburg, and Australia. Due to the compulsory vote, these countries have incredibly strict laws regulating the voting and punishments on those not showing up to vote. Although, on the other side of this,…

types of political systems that are used to determine the leadership within the government of a nation. Not all nations are alike in the ways that the winner is ultimately decided. The reasons for holding elections are simple. In a society, people have differences of opinion. Within countries there are millions, if not hundreds of millions of people who hold opinions of their own. In order to fairly elect leaders and vote on decisions it is necessary to have organized voting systems. In this…

Introduction The voting system is the core of democracy. It is a tool for citizens to create a democratic government. It is also a method to choose political representatives. When each citizen's vote has the same value, Parliament can reflect the political will of the people. If the voting system ignored or distorted the voters, the government would not be accountable and democracy would be damaged. The current Canada electoral system is based the plurality system. In any one constituency, the…

The weakness of our voting System I have never convinced of the saying, “every vote counts,” when our founding fathers created this democracy they were distrustful of the masses. They designed the system to make sure citizens never had too much power, because if they did they would make mistakes. They set up the Electoral College so “wrong” votes could be corrected. Therefore, I believe that voting is not an effective form of political participation, because the voting system is flawed. I…

the way the voting system works. As of now in the United States we have a winner take all approach to the voting system, which is about what it sounds like. Within this system known as winner takes all which is not proportional. Commonly also referred to as first past the post voting system there can only be one winner. Based on the idea that each citizen will be able to vote once in each election and the candidate with the most votes will win. A single member district voting system is used to…

Currently a voting problem has arisen based on the participation that eligible voters have in the democratic system. The author argues that certain groups, such as elderly voters, low-income people, specific demographic groups, and student are targeted to diminish their voting rights, by mentioning that the Representative John Lewis saw a deliberate systematic attempt to rule out potential voters from exercising their right. The “war” is being waged due to four different ways by setting up…

of registering the accounts and taking the votes. So, Mae quickly states an idea that rather than voting the government everyone must have a circle account profile. Later this idea was called as Demoxie. There were 5 Demoxie questions in the voting system. If these voting questions were authenticated using the social networking websites such as Google, Facebook, Twitter and so on, these voting systems would be interesting and encourage many people by the posts. I think, this scenario can have…

proportional voting system to elect the president the same winner, Barack Obama, was chosen, however with this new method the race was significantly closer. Using the current method used to elect President Obama, he won with three hundred and thirty two electoral votes to Mick Romney’s two hundred and six electoral votes. When the new method was used, the proportional system, Obama still won, however he did not win with as big of a gap as he did using the current method. With the proportional…

The Negative Effects of the Winner-Take-All Method In the current US election system, citizens do not directly vote for their next president. Instead, a group called the Electoral College carries out that function. Citizens cast their votes and those votes are tallied up by state. Once tallied, the Electors, also known as Representatives, of the states place their votes. Each state has a certain amount of electoral votes. All of the electoral votes of that state count toward whoever won the…

country. However, votes are not part of the Canadian political system. Long time ago, Canada’s government only had three referendums which are prohibition, conscription, and whether to accept the Charlottetown Accord, but then Canada’s voting system was not made this way. An electoral system is the procedure wherein qualified voters decide on who they want the representative to be. The different elements that form an electoral system composes of the structure of the ballot, how votes are cast…