Voting

I am told that voting is a human right, personal freedom or any other term you want to use. I disagree. Right wing anarchists tend to argue that voting is coercive. This is wrong. When you vote you indirectly use the coercive powers of government but that may be too strong of a statement. When you vote you give support to a candidate, or possibly a proposed law. It is the candidate who wins, or the law if it passes, that leads to coercive policies. Regardless, should we let anyone vote? Of…

The electoral college is a system of voting based on the population of each state. The states with larger populations have more electoral votes, which means the majority vote of each state is what those electoral votes represent on a national level. The electoral college should be modified where each state has the same amount of votes no matter the population. The votes should be counted and the electoral college shouldn’t have the final say. Also people who already have a place in office…

The modern redistricting process (being gerrymandering) completely undermines the quality of a genuine democracy in the United States because it reduces electoral competition. Democracy is supposed to be the practice of social equality and gerrymandering is practicing the exact opposite of that. State legislators are intentionally drawing the districts lines for their party’s own political gain and this is unacceptable. They are basically choosing their voters, which clearly brings a political…

How Americans Elect Their Presidents According to Merriam Webster(1) on election vote, select or poll ''is the act or process of choosing someone for a public office by voting''. Many people think that the presidential electoral in the USA take place through a direct vote, in other parts in the world, but this is not the case. Because it love variation and uniqueness in every thing, so they have different way to elect their president and who they chose the new president are 538 people. The…

ever have to make such decisions, political parties should be out of the question. It simplifies voting, increases diversity, prevents filibustering, and they will not be able to serve their purpose. Once explained those four reasons should be enough to at least give strong support as to why parties are not necessary. The reason why not having political parties on the local level simplifies voting is simple. The voter would not look for a candidate that has a platform that they like and need to…

Bonny Oaks Driver Service Center and the other one is in Red bank. In the Martin Luther King speech one of his desire that he wishes is for every person to vote. He wants people to vote without having issues. Here in Chattanooga there is an issue with voting that not many people notice that happen. Here is Tennessee there is a restrictive law for people to who want to obtain a voters identification. When people apply for a voters identification sometimes one of the requirements that is asked is…

Throughout the course of history, many people have had different perspectives on democracy. Some people may feel that it was positive, while others may feel that it was negative. In the excerpt from “Twelve Angry Men” by Reginald Rose, the poem “Democracy” by Langston Hughes, and “Telling Americans to Vote or Else” by William Gatson, each author conveys their perspective throughout their writing. Throughout the three texts, each author explains a flaw in democracy, Although they are similar,…

the vast voting age population that uses social media platforms: generating news, buying ads on social media sites, and person-to-person communication about politics (Electronic Mail, 2015). Specifically, get-out-the-vote messages delivered via an online social network has been tested to determine if it increases voter turnout. The study randomly assigned students students from a large public university to test the exposure to political messages via Facebook on the likelihood of them voting in…

In the second point, I believe that social media helped to overcome the “free rider” problem during the Arab spring movement. Because social media was used as a vehicle to gather likeminded citizens for demonstration, to overcome the social problem of the free riders in a the case of collective action, however this is not the case in ever revolution on social media, because there are cases where a person can say that they will be attending an event on social media and decide not to show up or…

This paper will examine the pro, con, and my viewpoint on felon rights on voting. First, the pro viewpoint is convicted felons have paid their debt to society. Some people believe restoring voting rights to ex-felons with strengthen communities. Firstly, getting felons involved with help strengthen the communities. For example, Andy Steiner reporter for Minnpost shares, the story of addict Rob Stewart believes “ granting voting rights to those leaving the state’s penal system will help level…