Voting system

On the 3rd of November in 1948, presidential candidate Harry S. Truman famously waved a copy of the Chicago Tribune reading, “Dewey Defeats Truman”. Also, a photo was taken on the platform of the St. Louis Union Station which housed the Ferdinand Magellan, the first ‘presidential train car’ used by Truman to host the initial whistle-stop campaign (Goldzwig). However, the United States has come a long way since the days of fliers, megaphones, and campaigns by railroads; instead, the media and…

Electoral College By constitution, US has a unique system of electing President and Vice President. Every four years elections are being held. On the Election Day voters do not choose President directly choose electors who will represent their will, hence voters indirectly choose a President and Vice President. Electoral College consists of 538 electors. It includes 100 Senators, and every state has 2 Senators regardless the population. District of Columbia has the same number of electors as…

The electoral college is an antiquated system of voting that gives ultimate power to representatives of each state. Some people believe that it is necessary in order to maintain a fair representation of each state, but the electoral college is outdated, only sways how presidential candidates campaign, and obscures the true popular vote. When the constitution was written, voters had few opportunities to learn about candidates, so the job of elector was given to a large group of government people…

their political system. One can simply look at president Obama's 2008 presidential slogan "Change" to see how Americans are no longer satisfied in their current political system. With numerous economic downturns, a large majority of Americans have suffered due to the loss of jobs and financial security. These people are no longer inclined to continue supporting their current political parties because of the lack of success that it has garnered. For the first time, our two political systems could…

Word Count: 2500 Is compulsory voting illiberal? If so, why? If not, why not? This essay argues that enforcing compulsory voting (CV) is illiberal according to Rawlsian political liberalism. To begin with, it gives Rawls’ account of the terms ‘liberal’ and ‘illiberal’. It explains why a liberal state must provide and protect citizens’ basic liberties, including their right to vote. It then argues that enforcing CV constitutes a restriction on citizens’ liberty. It argues that this in itself does…

College to vote for the president. They did not trust people to have enough information to make the right decision in electing the president. For this reason, the citizens are actually voting for educated politicians who votes for the president. But many people have argued as time passed on whether or not this was a fair system. The Electoral College should be abolished because it provides political inequality for many voters and it hurts third parties that want a chance. The first reason that…

SOUGHT The High Court rule that all Australian citizens overseas should be able to vote in national elections, regardless of the length of time since they ceased to reside in Australia. SUBMISSIONS 1. Inconsistent with Constitution The idea of voting originates from section 7 and section 24 of the Australian Constitution . Section 7 states that “the senate shall be composed of senators from each State, directly chosen by the people of the State” and section 24 states that “the House of…

Integrating voting via the internet as a definitive model to participate in electing government officials is a new phenomenon developed to stimulate democratic involvement. Although the accessibility of internet voting is a viable model to increase higher voter turnout rates and reduce governmental cost, I believe internet voting should not be incorporated into democracy because it perpetuates a stronger bias in the results sustaining an economic classes where only citizens with the economic…

flourishing world economy (“Democracy”). The United States is a democratic nation, yet we have a system known as the Electoral College which hinders democracy. It is a system that has worked well in its past, but the nation has undergone many changes both socially and politically. Throughout the nation, people are gradually becoming more upset with the Electoral College because they believe it is an unfair system that does…

man to understand. Thoreau was a Harvard graduate and an abolitionist.This man wrote “Civil Disobedience” and had many reasons for doing so. Some of his thoughts given throughout the essay are, he did not like the way the government was run, the voting system, he did not respect some of the reasons he was taxed, he also wanted the readers to learn how to be more outspoken against the government, and lastly he wanted to acknowledge that he is different in thinking than most people. There is an…