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    The 2016 presidential election will take place this November and with it brings a sense of renewal for some‚ and dread for others. Elections generate lots of hype‚ particularly because having a new president in office is generally exciting due to the ‘new’ factor. The excitement varies from good to bad‚ and this pattern is pretty consistent with past elections. There are certain outliers‚ however. One of the more recent elections‚ the election of 2000‚ caused a massive controversy‚ predominantly

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    off of both the votes that were casted and those that were not. Firstly‚ focusing on the votes that were casted‚ there were many numbers that were either not or wrongly counted. The 175‚000 undervotes that were supposably considered the ¨spoiled ballots” is one of these examples. The first factor that added to the illegitimacy of this election was the machine in Volusia county which “added 3‚000 votes to Bush’s total and subtracted thousands of votes from Gore” [1]. This put Gore’s count in the Volusia

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    Film & Ideology - Milk

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    Assignment 2 – Film and Ideology The definition of the word ideology can be represented in many ways. Today’s basic understanding of the word can be defined as “the body of ideas reflecting the social needs and aspirations of an individual‚ group‚ class‚ or culture” (Farlex‚ 2009).Gus Van Sant’s exceptional biopic Milk (Gus Van Sant‚ 2008) depicts the story of Harvey Milk‚ the slain gay-rights activist who became the first openly gay man elected to any substantial political office in the history

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    English as Official Language of Oklahoma The English language is originated from the German language‚ which has its roots from England. The English language became ​​known after the translation of the Bible by Luther from Latin into German. After that‚ during the reign of James the First of England in 1611 appeared the first version of the Bible in English called the Bible of King James (King James Version).The translation of the Bible has had a decisive influence on English literature and the English

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    that originates with the legislation‚ however‚ we would never hear the court stating that the voters “were not adequately informed” (174) about what the proposition contained. As expressions like this appear quite naturally in court decisions on ballot measures we see that the court applies a different‚ more suspicious standard toward direct legislation. In face of the judiciary being the only line of defense put forth in the initiative process‚ perhaps the court should be more suspicious‚ however

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    Political Parties and Unfair Elections The Civil War and the Vietnam era of the 1960s forever changed the political party systems of our country. Those two time periods and the issues involved led to America embracing a two-party system‚ which is intact to this day. Due to the two-party system‚ it is extremely difficult for a candidate to be elected if he is not a member of either the Democratic or Republican party. This is not a situation that our founders would have encouraged‚ as they "disliked

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    Describe the point of view expressed about minor parties in the political cartoon above.  The political cartoon depicts Ralph Nader addressing America’s "throw away mentality". Meanwhile a citizen in the background is casting her vote by dropping a ballot into a trashcan. This is a fairly pessimistic view on voting for third parties‚ as the cartoonist is showing that votes that are going for third parties are worth nothing. Because the vast majority of the country votes for major party candidates

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    There are many different ways to accomplish this illegal activity‚ such as ballot stuffing‚ registration fraud‚ and voter impersonation. Obviously‚ submitting more than one ballot in the slot at a time‚ or ballot stuffing is the simplest and the easiest of the three. Even though registration fraud‚ or creating a fictional person and registering with the phony identity or without permission the

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    According to his enemies‚ Andrew Jackson behaved more like a dictator/king than a democratic president. Jackson and his followers became the basis of the Democratic-Republican party‚ later known as the Democratic party. He believed in the spoils system‚ supported the common man‚ and equality for all people regardless of their social class. Although he had such positive features‚ he had some negatives as well. Jackson removed Native Americans from their homeland by signing the Indian Removal Act of

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    employment of Information Technology is a sure wayto realize this. Online voting is the application of web based technologies to the automation of voting processes. In online voting a voter cast their ballot from a remote terminal that is connected to the central database where actual processing of the ballot is done. Online systems have the advantage of providing convenience to the voter and reduce the time wasted in the queuing process at election centers. This paper describes a research carried out

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