The United States of America Prides itself on its extensive democracy--it is one of the most free places in the world--so why is it that a citizen has the right to vote, and is expected to exercise it, when it could be potentially pointless to cast a ballot? The answer, is the Electoral College. The Electoral College was established because our founding fathers dictated that their citizenry was incapable of making informed decisions, and they thought it best that the central figurehead of the nation be decided by men like them. That is false now--the Electoral College is an antiquated system that needs to be abolished because it is an inaccurate representation of what the people want, it forces people to throw away their vote, and most importantly,
(p. 10) People vote for candidates that they feel would be strong leaders. People also vote on issues that affect them, such as, taxes and education. What are the requirements needed in order to be able to vote? (p. 13)
Although most individuals whom were granted the rights to vote saw it as extremely positive change in all aspects, there were few who viewed the concept of voting as chaotic concept , they stated that “The tendency of the universal suffrage is to jeopardize the rights of the property and the principles of liberty.” (Doc B) everyone have the right to
Every citizen has the right to vote, but not everyone does these days. It’s important that all people vote in the country and compulsory voting will assure that, because voting is not just a right, it’s a responsibility like Jury duty. Throughout the history voting laws had changed from time to time and from country to country and till now 30 countries around the world had used compulsory voting and got effective results and their countries developed due to good elections that were built in people’s opinion. Voting is considered like paying taxes nowadays, even though it is a responsibility and a duty for them to do towards their country, some people support it and others don’t. The advocates of the compulsory voting argue that
One person said, “It was a real exciting feeling… All of a sudden, I’m a person to them again” (Kumar 2). Regaining the right to vote makes the formally incarcerated feel as if redemption is within reach. Voting can make a person feel validated. “Just because I was incarcerated, that means I’m nothing now?” (Kestin 3).
Voting is an important activity which is helpful in expressing the insights, ideologies and motivations of a mass for political parties. Voter eligibility in both national and state election has boundaries and limitations. In some states, only adult white male property owners having certain religious believes had the privilege to vote. As a result, only five percent were eligible to vote in 1790. There were other obstructions such as white only primaries, literacy tests, race, gender and age.
For instance our local government decides new laws that will be passed for our towns, the places we can live, and the places we can walk, and even things like businesses that are able to be open or need to be torn down. We may not think so but our votes are also important in the state and national elections as well. These are the people we will be depending on for the next term and the individuals we will have to look up to whether we like to or not. These are the people who budget our money and the individuals we are trusting. It is very important for us to go out and vote, it impacts us as an individual.
As members of a society we have obligations to confront to these societal values in order to contribute to an orderly and peaceful society. By means, a country would elect men and even women from and through a process of election, by the people for the people. “The government should do for the people only what the people cannot do for themselves,” a direct quote from Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address justifies that the government is the spokesman of a nation to provide any needs or what it is desired by the people for the nation's people. At the heart of these universal founding principles is the belief that people are free by possessed inherent rights and nature, thus being the reason why the constitution granting limited power of a government and the active population should contribute toward the elections of these spokesmen. One purpose of the Constitution’s, three branches of separation of government is checks and balances, the reason why it divides and limits power, is to restrain the ambition of the powerful Constitution, to make sure that government genuinely promotes general welfare.
Zillow is a small company that serves one of the largest sectors within the US economy, namely, the Real Estate industry. Though the company is small with only 1,215 employees(reported 12/2014), Zillow is a very data and technological-driven company in which it uses its infrastructure, internet website and mobile applications to provide vital information to their consumers. Their main consumers would be those in the market looking to buy, sell, or rent houses, as well as real estate professionals who are looking at the market in which they are selling in to stay competitive with others in the field. On the note of competition within the industry, Zillow has three top competitors in the business of online real estate management, these are Zaio, Homegain.com, and Market Leader, as of current, Zillow remains the largest business. Businesses such as Zillow rely on the trend of the real estate market, this being said these trends are the seasonal trend and that of population and construction of new living areas.
The serious lack of voter turnout contradicts this responsibility. There are individuals who speculate that it would be beneficial to make voting mandatory, with repercussions for those who do not vote. At the beginning of the course, I had believed that voting should be made mandatory. I thought that it would inspire people to vote, and would increase the numbers of turnout that way.
Throughout the recent years the majority of the able voting population are exercising their privilege to vote. Even during the presidential elections the voter turnout rate was 50% or less than that. The act of voting should be a personal responsibility of every citizen meaning it should be a obligation. But to specify on this statement, it should not lawfully required to vote because people also have the right not to vote too (and it would be weakening personal liberties) , but it should be a personal responsibility for citizens if they are to complain about how the government run rather than every citizen. A personal responsibility is when we are the cause of our own actions.
Voting allows you to choose who you, as an individual, believe who can provide for the country and treat the issues we face. Finally, voting a person into the most important role in the world ( the president of the United States) allows you to save the world. With a world so heavily militaries and military occupents all around the world, with allied countries and allied forces with the ability to end the world with atomic weaponry beyond what any of us can fathom, is all at the fingure tips of whomever is elected into office. Do your research, vote respoibly, your vote
480), the essay adheres to the principle of ‘Social Benefit’. This principle serves as the core of my argument that “compulsory voting serves as tool that can be used to improve the state of inequality of a nation”. Through a case study comparing voter participation in both the United States and Australia, the essay clearly conveyed the notion that in a system of voluntary voting, the citizens least likely to participate in elections are those from the least privileged backgrounds, i.e. low income earners, those from ethnic backgrounds, or those with low level education, which can consequently result in parliamentary focus skewing away from these demographics that arguably require a greater amount of advocacy, to instead favour the more well off voting community as it is they who will elect the nation’s representative. Conversely, in a democracy that enforces mandatory voting, this political inequality does not occur, but rather, compulsory voting indicates that the community is, by law, one; citizenship is a status that is to be enjoyed by everyone, despite economic, employment or residential status, education levels, ethnicity, gender of disability (Hill, 2004). Therefore, it is evident that the principle of social benefit, which acknowledges the extent to which an action produces beneficial consequences for society, is a primary
Voting Is An Important American Issue During my personal experience during an election, I believe that each arguement is a very compelling and potentially problematic concern. Each method of voting has a potential flaw, such as , paper ballots can be tampered with, stolen, or even hard to read in some cases. On the more positive side the paper method can be very easy to use for all people including those who are disabled, the instructions are clear, the choosing of candidates are simple, and for the elderly it 's easy as well, because not everyone is a computer whiz and would rather choose a method to which they are more comfortable like paper and pen, because evryone in our nation at one point or another have been to school and used old fashion paper and pen; Computer Technology wasn 't always around.
Others argue that it helps to protect everyone’s right to vote and ensure that no one takes someone else’s right. There is a way to make sure everyone is able to vote but their vote is also protected from
