they can get arrested‚ fined‚ and killed. This is called mandatory voting. I believe that mandatory voting is unacceptable. I believe that mandatory voting is objectionable because it makes indecisive people vote‚ it takes away a part of free will‚ and has to harsh of punishments. I believe that it is awful to make indecisive people vote because they may not like either thing‚ it will take 20 times longer to finish the voting process‚ and it will make them not think about their answer. Most
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Voting is the basic right of citizen of any democratic country. In few countries around the globe voting is mandatory. I agree with this view and this essay will discuss two reasons why compulsory voting is mandatory in those countries. Low population density in some democratic countries forces the governments to enforce mandatory voting. In fact‚ it beneficial for voters as well to select their desired leader by casting their valuable votes. In Australia for instance‚ voters casts their votes to
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In all of my 13 years of living I’ve heard so much about voting and how everyone should vote‚ but nobody has bothered to tell me why. I’ve grown up with a lot of my family voting for presidents‚ state representatives‚ senators‚ and more but it’s just something that they do without thinking. When election time comes‚ they go to wherever they need to go to vote‚ they vote‚ and then they come home. I believe that the importance of voting should be taught everywhere. As Americans living in the democracy
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almost entirely ineffectual. The murder of voting-rights activists in Philadelphia‚ Mississippi‚ gained national attention‚ along with numerous other acts of violence and terrorism. Finally‚ the unprovoked attack on March 7‚ 1965‚ by state troopers on peaceful marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma‚ Alabama‚ en route to the state capitol in Montgomery‚ persuaded the President and Congress to overcome Southern legislators’ resistance to effective voting rights legislation. President Johnson
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trusted elections. This paper develops an SMS Based Voting System that can be used in conducting a trustworthy‚ secure and robust election. This will allow a fully automated SMS Based Voting System where electoral vote counts are done instantly by the end of Election Day. The design requires the use of a national SIM card module during the electoral process. Using the design for a typical election scenario‚ the evaluation results show a Voting System that can be used for efficient processing and
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Lowering voting age in US Institution Affiliation Date: Over the years‚ there has been argument and debate on whether it is good to lower the voting age in the United States. Some of the Americans have been supporting the issue while others toughly stand against it. Historically‚ the voting age deliberation was also evident when it was lowered to eighteen years in ratification made by Congress in 1971. The voting age was by then at 21 years but by the 26th Amendment of the United States constitution
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Importance of Voting In his Gettysburg Address‚ Abraham Lincoln called democracy “government of the people‚ by the people and for the people.” It means that we are not here to serve our government‚ but that our government is here to serve us — and we have the right to decide who will represent us and how we want to be represented. It means that we have one of the greatest rights any free people can have: the right to vote. Voting is a right that‚ throughout history‚ many have fought for and
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A federal court judge ruled that the law discriminated against minorities and violated the Voting Rights Act. It required Texas voters to present a government-issued photo ID like a driver’s license‚ a passport‚ or a military ID. The judge said that requiring these IDs were disenfranchising minorities because they had a more difficult time obtaining
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When it comes to voting‚ Consequentialists and Virtue Ethicists have different opinions on what an individual should do. Among the various motivations for voting‚ one is that your individual vote can make a difference in an election. Consequentialists argue that the probability of this is so slim and because of that‚ a person does not have a moral responsibility to cast a vote come election time. Consequentialists focus on optimizing the overall results of an action and argue that one vote will not
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“Congress enacted the Voting Rights Act in 1965 after many years of protests and increasingly violent acts against African Americans. The Act made it a federal crime to deny a citizen the right to vote. It outlawed a number of tricks and schemes used for decades to disenfranchise African Americans.” “From the 1860s to the 1960s‚ African Americans routinely were denied the right to vote. This occurred mainly in the south‚ in the former Confederate states. But elsewhere‚ other minorities also suffered
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