of whether or not the voting age of 18 should be lowered or maintained‚ in my opinion‚ it should be maintained. To begin my position on the issue I will start by referencing the first passage‚ Keeping the Voting Age at 18. In this passage it argues that lowering the voting age to 16 will decrease the percentage of participation. I personally find that to be a good reason because around the age of 16 a person is typically still in school and not too worried about voting. The stereotypical teenager
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UOP STUDENT POS 110 Checkpoint: Voting in America Upon researching voter turnout in the United States‚ it is clear that the rate has declined tremendously over the years. Since the 1960’s‚ participation levels from voters has constantly decreased. There are many trends that lead to such a decline in turnout. One reason that many American citizens decide not to vote is due to the registration barriers. The laws governing how qualified voters should register has become a rather tedious
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turnout is around 57%. The reason behind this wide gap‚ is compulsory voting‚ meaning electors are forced to vote in elections‚ or attend the polls‚ or they may be fined or forced to do community service. Although compulsory voting may seem better when you look at percentages as a whole‚ it does not guarantee a positive outcome. Having high voter turnout does not necessarily result in accurate votes. The idea of compulsory voting may seem like a good idea on the surface‚ but when you dig deeper into
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Every four years the citizens of the United States of America come together to vote and elect the President of the United States. Voting in any type of election is important because it voices our opinions in selecting important leaders and officials and overall policies. Voting helps the person to decide what will they see done for themselves in the future depending leader who has the same views as you. The voter also is able to voice their opinion in future policies that will come into effect in
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WHEN IT RENEWED the Voting Rights Act in 1982‚ Congress the Bolden ruling the objections of the Reagan management. The 1982 changes make clear that it is unnecessary to prove that certain registration and voting practices have been established with intent. Instead‚ section 2 is violated if a court ends/decides that a voting practice has the effect of limiting the electoral influence of minorities‚ even if not by bias. A SECOND 1982 AMENDMENT allows people who are blind‚ disabled or unable to read
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The Importance of Voting With the Long Lines‚ the stressful waiting‚ and the constant question of asking yourself “why am I here?” on going in your head makes the waiting to vote the most exciting thing ever. But wait aside of that‚ think for a second. This year there were people going to vote even when hurricane sandy hit parts of their neighborhood‚ destroyed their houses or flooded several ways for them to get to their voting station‚ but they still voted. They’re is people who went to
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representing us isn’t exactly fair with the consensus of the general population. Minorities as a whole represent the state of Texas with over 55 percent of the population‚ or State Legislation is 70 percent white. Our politics at the state level is dominated by white middle aged males and at times can’t relate or reflect the needs of
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olds should not be able to make these decisions for the world because of many reasons. The voting age should not be lowered to age 16. There are three main arguments that support this opinion. First‚ teens at the age of 16 can act immature. Most‚ 16 year olds can make immature choices so therefore should not have the right to vote. If the voting age is lowered to age 16 random people such as chavs will be voting (a young lower class person who displays brash behavior). They will vote for what they
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INTRODUCTION-: “ONLINE VOTING SYSTEM” is an online voting technique. It is based on the other online services like “ONLINE RESERVATION SYSTEM” .In this system people who have citizenship of INDIA and whose age is above 18 years of any [censored] can give his\her vote online without going to any polling booth. There is a DATABASE which is maintained by the ELECTION COMMISION OF INDIA in which all the names of voter with complete information is stored. SCOPE-: - This system will increase the voting percentage
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Should voting in the U.s be mandatory? In this article‚ the author shows the opinions of two professors. Lisa Hills‚ from Australia‚ explains the benefits of mandatory voting and how it could change the U.S and how it could help us in many ways. Mandatory voting would give all Americans say in politics. The government wouldn’t just pay attention to certain people. The people the vote would get more attention because of their contribution to politics. This could have bad effects on the people
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