Not a Vote Wasted: A Look Into Third Party Votes in 2012 Presidential Election While most of the country was tied up with the competition going on during the 2012 Presidential Election between the Democrat and Republican Presidential candidates‚ Barack Obama and Mitt Romney‚ many other Americans were rooting for the underdogs. The gap between Romney and Obama in the popular vote was more significant than you’d think. Growing support for third party candidates don’t have the major political parties
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an important privilege‚ some Americans choose not to vote and the government is now trying to make voting mandatory for people to vote and I am in opposition to that. So many uneducated voters will vote‚ its considered taking our freedom away‚ and we really don’t need to worry as much about voting as about education. One objection to this argument is that the disadvantaged‚ the poor‚ the unemployed‚ and the uneducated are less likely to vote than then the other groups. We need to worry about whether
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our nation. By voting you are expressing your hard earned rights as an American. You are also letting the government know what your thoughts and opinions are when it comes to the matter you are voting on because the government looks to you as an individual when it comes to electing the next leader of our country. Not all people have always had the privileges to go out and vote. Women and non-white males have not always been eligible to vote‚ so by voting they are showing the sacrifices and obstacles
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after Prisonization for African American Juvenile Felons Introduction Reintegration after Prisonization for African American Juvenile felons what happens to them and can them survive in the outside world? What is reintegration? This paper will examine the reintegration of African American juvenile felons. Being a felon makes it hard to find a job; in some cases it interferes with trying to get an apartment or even a grant to continue education. Felons have the hardest time in obtaining employment‚
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ex-convicts be allowed to vote? According to the Constitutional Law‚ at the age of eighteen you are legally given a right to voice your opinion in voting. What happens when the law is broken for something you have done illegally‚ should your rights be taken away? How can a crime be so bad to where rights are taken? I believe all rights should be restored once the person whom committed the crime have paid their debt to society by doing the time because No Crime should take away their right to voice opinions
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explore the view points of the employer‚ the convicted felon‚ and the public. The argument of convicted felons in the work place; is an argument that has many sides and circumstances. In this argument you have the side of the employer and on the other side you have the argument of the convicted felon. Then you have view point of the public. Should convicted felons have a job? That is the heart of the question at hand. Convicted felons need work to just like any one else. The circumstance
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Cast Your Vote America By: Emily Veit Dr. Kirkpatrick GOVT 2035- MW 4:15-5:30 March 25‚ 2013 The great American eighteenth birthday allows a citizen to buy a lotto ticket‚ purchase tobacco‚ and gain the right to vote. The 2012 election only had around a fifty percent voter turnout for the United States of America. Australia has used a system called compulsory voting since 1924‚ which mean that voting is mandated. Whether it should be enforced
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history 10/25/93 Why should people vote? Being able to vote is very important. Voting helps us express our voice. Many people in our community gained help by voting and have gotten more rights as well. Voting is a way of expressing our thoughts. By voting we let our leaders know what we want‚ need‚ approve or disapprove of such as recreation centers‚ school regulations and also entertainment areas‚ when we vote it gives us a sense of freedom‚ knowing that we have rights that maybe other people in other
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Many people simply don’t vote or don’t understand the importance and power they have by just simply voting for the candidate that best suites their needs. Voting is important because it exercises your right as an American citizen to express your issues and ideas. Voting also helps us decide who will lead our country. Many men and women who have served this country have given their lives just so that you can be able to vote. Voting is important because it’s not only a right but also a privilege. Voting
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WHY SHOULD I VOTE Voting is not only a right but a privilege in the United States granted first under TheTwenty-fourth amendment to the United States Constitution which states that: the right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President‚ for electors for President or Vice President‚ or for SenatorRepresentative in Congress shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State and is also addressed again in Article 19
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