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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article‚ “Should Voting Be Compulsory?” by Galston and Dionne‚ they claim that voting should be made mandatory for all eligible citizens. Giving people the right to vote is not enough. Voting should be made mandatory to ensure a more beneficial government and a strong democracy. In 1924 Australia their voting percentage for all citizens was at around sixty percent. However in 1925‚ “ …the first held election under the new law‚ turnout soared to 91 percent. In the 27 elections since World War ll
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Barack Obama Before Election By Lynn Reuter APA References Dalsgaard‚ S. (2008). Facework on facebook: The presentation of self in virtual life and its role in the US elections. Anthropology Today‚ 24(6)‚ pp. 8-12. Hollinger‚ D. A. (2008). Obama‚ the instability of color lines‚ and the promise of a postethnic future. Callaloo‚ 31(4‚ Cutting Down "The Wrath-Bearing Tree": The Politics Issue)‚ pp. 1033-1037. Hopkins‚ D. A. (2009). The 2008 election and the political geography of the
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citizens to vote in government elections. Compulsory voting should be mandatory in the United states. It increases voter turnout and will help minimize political polarization. Compulsory voting has been working well in the twenty-six countries that implement it. Australia is a great example of how voter turnout has increased dramatically with the law. In 1924‚ only 47% of Australia’s registered voters voted. After putting a mandatory voting law in place‚ the current voting turnout rests at 80% of eligible
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of whether or not the voting age of 18 should be lowered or maintained‚ in my opinion‚ it should be maintained. To begin my position on the issue I will start by referencing the first passage‚ Keeping the Voting Age at 18. In this passage it argues that lowering the voting age to 16 will decrease the percentage of participation. I personally find that to be a good reason because around the age of 16 a person is typically still in school and not too worried about voting. The stereotypical teenager
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There is much more dark matter than normal (visible) matter in the universe. According to (this source) roughly 68% of the universe is dark energy. Dark matter makes up about 27%‚ while everything else in the universe (physical matter like the atoms that make up planets and stars) makes up less than 5% of the universe. According to (this source) the universe is actually 96% of dark matter and dark energy. With 73% being dark energy and 23% being dark matter but the implications of this much
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Free and Fair Election The electoral system have to be fair and just and to ensure this‚ free and fair election will be held when the Parliament is dissolved or finish it’s sitting duration of 5 years. A free and fair election must be in orderly manner and it must not have Coup d’état. Coup d’état is meant by a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics . It is an alteration of an existing government by a small group that tend to create riots and chaos. The current Malaysia government believe
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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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fight for 545 Old chairs: In what will be one of India’s most keenly watched Lok Sabha elections‚ the only declared prime ministerial candidate is pitted against many more hopefuls.With the congress shying away from naming a nominee for the top post although it is not necessary as per Indian constitution.It forms one of the basic necesscity for voters to know who will rule them after election.As the election champaign is heating up every party is pullling all their strings to deliever better music
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Step # 1 Why does evolution matter now? The subject of this video is an explanation on how our understanding of evolution is crucial to our treating and surviving disease brought on by viruses‚ bacteria and other microbes we deal with in our everyday lives. The example that I felt was the most powerful in this film was the illustration on how a resistant strain tuberculosis outbreak in a prison in Russia can have an effect on a people half way around the globe‚ in this era of globalization
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