Voting system

the oldest voting system in the world, and at first glance it seems simple, efficient and fair, with the candidate that gets the most votes winning. However, this is far from the truth. This archaic and exploitable system undermines citizens’ right to have their voice heard in government and breeds gridlocked and inefficient government. Citizens must realize that the outdated and unfair first past the post voting system must be replaced with a more proportionally representative system to allow…

ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTING SYSTEM Critique/analyze the Electoral College Electoral College voting system applies to the election of the president and the vice president. It is a system whereby votes are granted to each state based on its representation in congress. Votes therefore are not allotted in respect to population. Each state is given a minimum of three votes in addition to two votes for senators. This voting system should be abolished because the distribution of votes per state is not…

Election, it’s important for people to understand their role in the voting system and how the voting system actually works. One important aspect to the election is the Electoral College, which is the true body that hand picks the President and Vice President. However, many people are in the dark to as what the Electoral College actually does. Is it a system that directly reflects the votes of the citizens or is it a calculating system that sides with the majority? As of June 28, 2016, the…

A highlight of this course for me personally was when I reflected on Canada’s voting system. The Canadians voting system is extremely important, as it determines who wins the election. The Canadian voting system is important for everyone living in Canada. This is because the federal winner of the election, will represent Canada as a whole. To be more precise, the Canadian voting system, is more important for the Canadians whom are eligible to vote. This is because, those individuals have the…

The article “The Calculus of Voting in Compulsory Voting Systems” by Costas Panagopoulos that appeared in the Political Behavior talks about how Compulsory voting laws have consistently been demonstrated to boost electoral participation. The article is rather expository than analytical or descriptive, and mostly uses data from external sources and research. The first part of the article mainly focuses on the cost of voting: Rational choice theories of electoral turnout assume that voters, like…

countries. Mexico does have compulsory voting but have the lowest turnout among the other countries even with countries do not have compulsory voting. Along the line shows Austria and New Zealand does have a one of the highest turnout…

Voting is something that sets the precedence to the county in which we live in, unfortunately so many unethical and unjust things occur during this process that people begin to lose faith in the government in which governs out daily lives. Growing up my family was very big on voting and pushed everyone to vote when they turned 18. My family always instilled that this is our opportunity to make change, which was liberating. I was excited to vote and always encouraged my friends to vote. My…

seats, which creates predetermination in elections before voting. This would make our process undemocratic. Cracking is when the minority community is fragmented into several districts, none of which have…

speaking these are either government reform, or electoral reform. With electoral reform many of the suggested reforms had to do with changing the voting system from the current one district party list system, to ones where individual district and countries have more say, such as splitting up the country into 120 districts that each vote, or a mixed-member system where half the MKs are based on party list, and half on districts, but so far no reform has remained popular (Knesset.gov, 2008). The…

Party primaries and caucuses have historically produced the successful nominees for conventions which served to formally anoint the presidential candidates on the first ballot. But in the event of a competitive primary process, delegates at a convention could have more difficulty in reaching a clear majority of support for any one candidate. A brokering process then takes place, with multiple ballots a possibility. Had John Kasich and Ted Cruz not dropped out of the race for the Republican…