Voting

When using the 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…

In this image, there is a blue, black, and white box with a square opening in the center and a piece of white paper being inserted into the box. This signifies a ballot box, used for voting. The colors red and blue on the box signify the colors on the American flag. The ballot box also has a shadow, which covers a small fraction of the maze. Surrounding the ballot box is a maze. There are two openings leading to the box. One opening is a straight line, which is very easy to follow and leads…

Elections are won and lost in accordance to multiple factors that are categorised to Short Medium and Long term. Within the 150 electorates obvious voting patterns are formed, voter behaviour that is effected by these factors can be detrimental to the loss of a seat. At 5.29pm on Monday 5 August 2013 the House of Representatives in the 43rd Parliament was dissolved and went into the caretaker mode. The 2010-2013 government brought the first hung Parliament in 70 years, Michelle Grattan commented…

increased. Out of the 25 largest cities in Texas, 20 have adopted the SMD or a mixed system of at-Large and SMD. The increased use of SMD has led to more ethnically and racially diverse city councils. 50 of the Texas local governments have used Cumulative voting to increase minority representation. When multiple seats are contested in an at-Large election, voters cast one or more of the allotted number of votes for one or more candidates in any combination. Candidates with the most votes are…

As a citizen of the United States, it is our profound responsibility to vote for our nation’s future leaders. Nevertheless, I am utterly disgusted by the fact that citizens have to pay a poll tax in order to vote. That isn’t really fair. Paying to vote for the people who are to lead our country? Nonsense! Many southern states adopted a poll tax in the late 1800s, and even though the 15th amendment gave former slaves, such as myself, the right to vote, many of the slaves were poor and did not…

Proxy Voting refers to the process by which one person or entity votes on behalf of another. Since the majority of shareholders do not attend the annual and special meetings at which voting occurs, corporations provide shareholders with the option to cast a proxy vote. Davis Selected Advisers, L.P. (“DSA”) votes on behalf of its clients in matters of corporate governance through the proxy voting process, with a focus on the investment implications of each issue. DSA has established proxy…

The article, “White-on-White Voting” by Thomas Edsall, discusses the idea of large majority white cities and towns being the reason that Trump won the 2016 presidential election. Trump won in the areas that are some of the whitest in the nation, many of whom did not vote as strongly for McCain or Romney in the previous two elections as they did for Trump. These, almost 100 percent white, suburbs were all so extremely pro-Trump because they felt they had a reason to worry about their…

Since I was really little my mom would take me to voting polls with her. She would let me press the buttons of who she wanted elected and then tell me why. I remember her always telling me to choose if I wanted to be a democrat or a republican. One day I asked my mom why I couldn’t register as an independent and she told me that I would not be able to vote during primaries. When I was able to register to vote I registered as a democrat even though I am an independent at heart. In my opinion…

past few presidential election has been the majority of the millennial population and it has said to win the millennial vote, talk about the issues, therefore, they have shared their issues that concern them the most, their matters of importance when voting, and their research they have done to be prepared for the presidential election. According to The Atlantic, the millennial is more liberal than their parents because of how open-minded and more involved they are in politics. For example,…

The voting rights have changed through history. All colors of all race have the right to vote and even all genders have the right to vote. But you still have to be atleast the age of 18 or older to have the right to vote. Women could vote in New Jersey and in some local areas, in all the other northern states. Non-white Americans could also vote in these areas as well, provided they could meet the property requirement. Freed slaves could vote in only four states. Initially, men without property…