So theres a debate about rather the voting age should be lowered to 16 or stay at 18‚ in my opinion it should stay at 18. Lowering the voting age would cause problems because younger voters would probaly be voting without a purpose. Voting is something very importart and should not be done just for fun. When I was 16 I didn’t take voting to serious. I really didn’t understand what it was about or what I was voting for. If I had legal rights to vote at 16 I would have probaly just did it for fun
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History of Voting Within Canada I will choose the event of women winning the right to vote in 1919. I think this event had the biggest impression on me because before this event happened‚ women were excluded from voting for the government. That meant that almost half of the population was excluded from voting. I think that was simply unacceptable that almost half of the population was excluded from voting just because they were a different gender. It also heavily skewed the votes in favor of men
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compulsory voting at federal elections‚ introduced in 1924 has proven to be one of the most successful systems in the world. Politics may not be a passion by all but it is something that runs Australia and is needed to be acknowledged as it puts laws in place for the citizens of Australia. The compulsory system is apart of everyday life and the decisions made by the government impacts the services that citizens receive‚ such as tax costs and improve the nation’s future. Compulsory voting should remain
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vote. However that experience lead to the questions I hoped to answer in my project. My goal was to interview students and ask them if they registered to vote and how‚ did they encounter any problems‚ and if after registering to vote they did end up voting. I felt it would be interesting because‚ during an election year‚ the youth vote is highly talked about and why the youth has the lowest turnout rate out of any voter age demographic. There are three types of data collection techniques‚ surveys
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scheme for the republicans to gain more votes or to prevent voter fraud at the polls. After researching this topic my opinions is voting fraud is not a huge problem in the United States about 15 cases of voter fraud occurs each year. This law is being used as republican’s tool from keeping democratic voters from voting. Voter id law would discourage citizen from voting so the outcome may result in their favor. In the U.S. census data the poverty rate for Hispanic is at 25.8% and for African Americans
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Throughout political history‚ voting has been an important factor in elections. However‚ during the time of the civil rights movement‚ a lot of discrimination against people of African-American descent started forming and was showed through restrictions on voting. As a result‚ President Johnson passed the Voting Rights Act on August 6‚ 1965‚ which had strengthened the 15th amendment and “provided a nationwide prohibition against the denial or abridgment of the right to vote on the literacy tests
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In my opinion I think the voting age should be lowered to age 16. The first example of why I think the voting age should be lowered to age 16 is because youths can be tried for crimes as adults and they can fight and die for their country like adults but yet they are still not allowed to vote. I think it’s highly unfair if you treat teenagers who are 16 years old like adults on some issues but not all is issues. If you treat 16 year olds like adults on one issue‚ why not all other issues. It is
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Civics and Economics Portfolio Honors Civics and Economics 1/8/14 Mrs. Cunningham Voting Voting is the method by which the electorate appoints its representatives in its government. It is necessary to understand the voting qualifications and the process to be a productive citizen and vote for your government. This is some evidence I have to prove my understanding of voting. In order to vote you need to be all of the following; a US citizen‚ at least 18 years old‚ and a resident
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Enact Mandatory Voting? Many countries around the world have compulsory voting laws including Argentina‚ Australia‚ and Belgium‚ but will this work for the United States? Estimates have shown that in the 2016 election only 58% of eligible citizens voted. Various arguments exist debating the necessity of mandatory voting. Arguments opposing mandatory voting insist that the process would lead to empty votes from both uneducated and disinterested citizens. Furthermore mandatory voting is contrary to
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Analysis ’ of Articles on the Subject of Lowering the Voting Age to 16 A debate that has seemed to become more popular in the past couple of years is the voting age n the United States‚ and whether it should be lowered to 16. Many teenagers across the nation have reached out and tried to bigot to help get the subject some attention and get those in the political world talking. Many others‚ mostly adults‚ are astonished and appalled at this idea‚ and don ’t seem to take them or the uproar towards
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