should be lowered to 16. There is a number of reasons that lowering the voting age will benefit the country. Lowering the voting age will increase voter turnouts‚ give the younger generation‚ a say in the law‚ and help teens become more interested in politics. This is why we should lower the voting age. Lowering the voting age will help increase voter turnouts‚ and will bring a new age group to vote in elections. This will cause numbers in elections to grow. Giving this age group the right to vote will
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They have websites for their campaign as well as Twitter and Facebook accounts to communicate with us - their potential voters. Technological advances have led to a political conversation on the web. According to an empirical study‚ however‚ this only reinforces the status quo‚ particularly in terms of the socioeconomic status of a person. The Internet did not expand the base of voters. Access to the Internet has grown. Younger citizens by an overwhelming margin tend to have access to the Internet in
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Affect Male Spouses’ Views about a Women’s Issue?” by Eiji Yamamura‚ “The Political Gender Gap: Gender Bias in Facial Inferences that Predict Voting Behavior” by Joan Chiao‚ Nicholas E. Bowman‚ and Harleen Gill‚ “Political Context and the Turnout of New Women Voters after Suffrage” by Kevin Corder and Christina Wolbrecht and lastly‚ “The Gender Gap” by Karen Kaufmann. I chose this order to present the articles that I found because I wanted to have consistent spacing of articles about the gender gap
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The persistent decline in voter participation continues to disappoint German politicians. When roughly one-third of the voting age population turns out for a Parliamentary election once every four years – let alone federal or local elections – it becomes difficult to defend the “free” right to vote. Voting is not only a right‚ but a responsibility. Therefore‚ voting in elections should be compulsory in Germany as a way to increase voter turnout and to raise overall political awareness. Contrary
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which requires citizens to register to vote and to go to their polling place or vote on election day. With secret ballots‚ it’s not really possible to prove who has or has not voted so this process could be more accurately called "compulsory turnout" because voters are required to show up at their polling place on election day. One of the most well-known compulsory voting systems is in Australia. All Australian citizens over the age of 18 (except those of unsound mind or those convicted of serious crimes)
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compulsory in Britain. One of the main arguments for Britain adopting a compulsory voting system is to facilitate higher rates of electoral participation after poor turnouts in the last two general elections‚ were only 59.4% and 61.4% of the public have turned out ‚ the lowest amounts since World War I. In fact at the last election‚ non-voters were the largest single group‚ outnumbering those who voted Labour into power. Compulsory voting would cause this group to contribute‚ helping to address the issue
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agent of change and an important civic duty. However‚ the mindset that voting is important has changed over the past few decades. According to a study done by the Pew research center‚ the United States voter turnout trails most developed countries; and the 2016 Presidential election’s voter turnout rate was at a 20-year low (Regan‚ 2016). One of the leading issues that scholars and politicians alike face when trying to tackle this
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a smaller voter turnout. States with more electoral votes are visited more often in a presidential campaign. This causes states like Wyoming‚ Montana‚ and Alaska to seem left out because they only count for three votes towards the election. Only counting for three votes does not affect the election at all which
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his or her race. Since this convention is held once every four years‚ potential candidates are now going through different media outlets to bring up support for their campaigns before the national convention is held. The national convention gives voters a chance‚ through primaries and caucuses‚ to bring enough votes for certain candidates to represent the political party the convention is for . The convention first came about a few years after the Corrupt Bargain of
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groups often give large sums of money to the party system‚ in the form of campaign contributions. Up until 1896‚ the republican and democratic parties were competitive throughout the country and there was a high voter turnout. Due to this competition‚ both parties had to try to make the voters happy in order to win elections. They tended to listen to the masses and work to do what the people wanted. This was up until the farmer run populous movement of 1896. Both the democrats and republicans were
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