Voting system

advance technology it is a lot easier to take someone’s identity and use it to their benefit. The government has worked on utilizing ids on anything that deals with the state. It has expanded all the way to having some form of identification when voting in the elections. In the past people did not need any form of identification to vote. It is stated in the 15th Amendment of the US Constitution that the “right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the…

The United States election process is one of great importance and significance to the American government. Yet voting can be one of most confusing topics to its citizens. How does an election work? How does your vote make a difference in our county? What is the Electoral College and what is its purpose? These questions have been asked and thought of by many Americans for generations. As with everything in government, the process is much more complex than it seems. On the surface, electing a…

it is also vulnerable. This concerns me in regards to presidential elections, and leaves me with the following questions; How easily can electronic votes be manipulated? How has technology contributed to the voting process? Finally, will elections ever be secure? Source code from the voting software used in our polling machines is floating all over the internet! (cite) To someone who is doesn’t understand computers, that is the like owning a house, and removing the locks. Although polling…

person has difference of about a factor of 4 in value, a problem that would not exist in a direct election. A study by Lawrence D Longley found variations in voting power between states when operating under an Electoral College but none in a direct election (Longley 1984). So at the very core, the voices of the people in the Electoral College system aren’t even equal because the country insists that states are more important than the people. Ultimately the Electoral College is built on…

final reading assignment grade 1. What was the three-class voting system in Prussia? What purpose did it serve? Who supported it? Who opposed it (Fulbrook, A History of Germany, 126-127; Tipton, A History of Modern Germany, 112) A voting system based on how much one paid in taxes. Conservatives supported the system because it reflected their interests. Liberals did not support it, because it did not support theirs. It was a skewed system of representation which allowed for the conservative…

election Donald Trump won, even though he got 380,000 fewer votes than Hillary Clinton. Most people who came out to vote on election day wanted Hillary Clinton to be the president, but still Trump ended up winning. How is this possible? What kind of system is this in which the person who gets more votes actually ends up losing? This scenario is only possible through the Electoral College. In Electoral College, each state gets number of electorates based on the number of senators and…

of requiring to use identification to vote or not for years now. Though voting with identification is highly anticipated, I believe that voting without identification is the better argument due to having the government not have to restrict us when we want our individual rights and to do something, that we choose to do, to be restricted. People agree that voting with identification would be a good idea due to having the voting process a ton more secure but this also allows the government to…

ballots are usually counted accurately and rapidly with no one to dispute the results. Voting has become not just confusing but also difficult; each state has its own rules as to how delegates are allocated, which can make the process utterly complicated. Creating more rules and regulations will make voting even more convoluted and worthless to many Americans, especially with the dominance of a two-party system and how the Constitution sets up how the President of the United States is elected.…

Election day has been the same Tuesday every four years since 1845, strategically placed after the last harvest of the year, and before the first winter snow storm. This system worked out well, until the United States moved away from being a primarily agrarian society. Eventually, "the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of November” was no longer a convenient time of the year to hold elections because it lands directly in the middle of the work week. This is a huge concern because…

winner cam be chosen, in other words, it’s too close to a tie to consider one candidate the winner. This claim is unquestionably valid—in a national-popular-vote-only election. No one wants to deal with re-votes and re-counts. That is why the choicest voting method is not a national popular vote where each person votes for their candidate of choice. Instead, the most felicitous method to vote would be the instant runoff ballot. The instant runoff ballot has voters filling out their ballot not by…