Why People Don T Vote

Every citizen has the right to vote, yet so many people don’t vote, "with the turnout at just 64% for the 2008 presidential election, and voter turnout rates decreasing steadily in most established democracies." My parents just can't do it because they're too busy and sometimes they just don't want to vote. It would be fun to vote because of the freedom we have on voting for which president we want to have, but some people just don't think that way. As a consequence, voter turnouts during presidential elections has been traditionally low. There are a number of reasons why people may not vote such as a lack of understanding of politics, people being busier, a lack of trust in the government, laziness; which is disrespectful, and not caring or even contentment with how things are. But when people
fought so hard to get fair and equal voting rights for all, it should be a legal requirement that every US citizen turns out on election day and votes. For a start, not voting when you have the right to is disrespectful to a lot of people. It disrespects those that fought and struggled for the right to vote and not be discriminated against, because to not vote is to not value the contribution and sacrifice that they made for all of us. According to Job Sanger, "Women were beaten, lied about, insulted, and shunned because we demanded the right to vote. And you are going to sit on your butt because you don't have the perfect candidate. However, it is possible that many people do not value the movements because they are ignored from our own history." The school system should value important suffragettes just as much as presidents so people are more aware of the suffrage and then they would be more likely to want to vote. Our nation political history on voting would really help kids feel strong about voting and what people before us have done. If we have a law that says that every person must vote it would make things way easier in voting. Generations marched, fought and died for the right to vote. The least we can do now is treat that right like a responsibility. It also isn’t fair to many underprivileged or oppressed people all over the world who would give anything for the right to vote but are denied the important opportunity that we so readily throw away because we are busy.
These people may feel that we are ungrateful what they have, and they would be right, because they would love the chance to have a say in the way their country runs and potentially improve their lives through it, while we don’t bother to vote but then moan if things don’t go the way that we want. This is another reason that we should have to vote otherwise, we shouldn’t have the right to complain. According to ideas.times.com, "If you don’t even try to influence policy in the ways that you can, you can’t then moan about how rubbish everything is. If you’ve done all that you can but it hasn’t worked, however, you and everyone else being critical of the government is perfectly reasonable because things are going wrong despite every citizen’s best efforts." We need to understand that many people in the world are fighting for the freedom to vote and we already had people who fought for that and won. Many don't even care about that and that's just
terrible. The main argument against making voting compulsory is that the people that aren’t voting currently don’t care, and will just pick randomly and could make bad choices and undermine the votes of those that thought carefully. Like my uncle Mike, he thinks that he can just vote randomly for fun, but every vote counts he is making a wrong choice with this certain situation. However, although people may not actively vote to improve their country, they wouldn’t actively vote to make it worse, so if they had to vote they would put some effort in. If we all had to vote, we would all understand more and the country would be better off. To get people more people interested in voting for a certain person the candidate needs to increase his or her campaign pizzazz with his or hers campaign workers. According to Tim Altom, "Studies show that those who might be inclined to vote but don't can be induced to care about voting if contacted personally by a campaign worker. There are groups of otherwise qualified citizens who simply won't vote, but there is a broad swath of what Pew calls "intermittent's" who may vote if they're approached by campaign workers." Campaign workers can change many things in voting if you have the right one. There is no question that voting is a moral duty of every citizen in a democracy. The question is whether or not a person can be compelled to vote against his own judgment in the interest of democracy. There are many advantages to compulsory voting such as it helps people be more respectful of the people who have died for the right to vote, it shows that we truly care about voting, and there will be more votes in the election since every adult is voting. These reasons show that we need to have mandatory voting here in the US. Follow these words and it will lead us to a stage that will help our society in selecting the right candidate for the job.