Summary Of Why Voting Matters

In an era where people worldwide are gaining their right to vote, the citizen in the United States of America does not seem to view voting as an essential tool to make democracy work. The U.S is considered a world power where its ideology of democracy is an example worldwide. That’s ironic because there are a lot of people like African-Americans and Hispanics who are the ones that have a low voter turnout during elections. The idea of democracy is a delusion lived by American citizens who have fought for progression in democracy but now has resulted in a lack of faith in our democratic system. We are jeopardizing the idea of democracy each election, due to a lack of interest in voting. As a result, it can cause a tragic political chaos full

African-Americans have fought for the right to vote since not a long time ago. In the 60s, Jim Crow laws which legally segregate Blacks from Whites in the Southern States were still strong, making voting even harder for Blacks. However, this fight that Black people accomplished does not seem to matter because voting turnout for African-Americans is low. In the article, “ Why Voting Matters”, Sean McEwen explains how turnout is “...disproportionately on people of color. While not-Hispanic white turnout dropped by 29 percent between 2012 and 2014, it dropped by 40 percent among Blacks...” (2015, p.4). In the 60s Black fought for their civil rights, but unfortunately, they do not seem to care about the country’s democracy. Still, African-American are not the only one who has dramatically decreased on voter

Voter turnout has dramatically decreased in the Congressional Election by 35.7 percent to 27 percent of the votes from 1978 to 2014 (File, 2015, p. 4). Even if the Hispanic population are higher in some states, their voting rate is low. In the state of California such as, the greatest that votes are white even though in its population there are a lot of Hispanics. An analysis from The Public Policy Institute of California proves that “California voters do not reflect the state’s racial diversity” California’s population is made of 46 percent white and 35 percent Latino and the rested are represented by African-American, Asian and others, Still seven in 10 who votes are white and only one in six is Latino (Baldassare, 2014,