Analysis: Everyone Should Be Able To Vote

“Requiring citizens to vote is no more restrictive than requiring them to register for the draft” (Doc C). Voting will just be added to a list of what Americans need to do for their country. If we can drive on the same side of the road constantly, voting every once in awhile won’t be a huge problem. “In sum, voting is the least a citizen can do for his or her country” (Doc C). Voting is a form of freedom of speech, when people vote they vote for what they believe in and most people want what’s best for the country. “It is not unreasonable to ask US citizens to do this minimal thing” (Doc

Americans should not be required to vote, the amount of votes will go up. But since they are not aware of who they are voting for would cause chaos. If they have a problem and want to have their say in the elections they should be able to without be required to with an influence of something. They would still need more ways to higher the voting percentage. But they could do that with several ads convincing them so they have the mindset of voting. Now the odds of the least liked candidate to be voted in to win is fifty fifty.

At last, its 21st Century Democracy in United States, that is why nothing but a general view for mandatory voting has nothing to do with today’s politics. It’s almost signifying the central promise of American citizenship. Generally saying, let’s eat the cake for which many generation marched, fought and died. As discussed in the paper, everyone have their own problems but giving a few minutes to vote can solve this problems for future generations. Making federal voting mandatory will bring a big change in the way the candidates offer beneficial speeches. And this will make America

Honorable Senators and Representatives, today I would like to provide you with a compelling argument in favor of expansive voting rights for all in our Country. To begin I would like for us to turn toward our past. In the Declaration of Independence the framers of our great republic wanted to break free from

Voting plays an important role in the modern lives that can easily shape the whole world. While some people believe that voting should be voluntary, I believe that voting should be mandatory for more social benefits. This essay will discuss the reasons why voting should be compulsory.

One of the similarities that both passages portray consists of the style of writing, the way the author carries out the messages allow the audience to understand the

Voting is the chance to contribute to the political process, and the framework was made to work best when everybody partakes. Along these lines, utilizing your entitlement to vote is not only an expansion to the voter turnout insights distributed by each significant media site (which reliably demonstrate seniors as having the most astounding voter turnout - time for the young to lift it up). Your vote really matters and the country needs and needs to hear your feeling. We live in a vote based system (a term utilized delicately as a part of our general public). A democracy is a system of government in which the entirety of the population participates. So, participate all the time.

Shaw provides a good point when he states: “Going through rehabilitation and reintegration, ex-felons become part of a law-abiding society with the same privileges as others in the society, proponents for voting rights argue.” If they go through these things to become a part of society again, then why are they not allowed the right to vote? This must be an upsetting process for those felons that want to become a part of society again and actually care to make a difference. All that they want to do is to be granted one of the basic fundamental rights guaranteed to citizens. I mean that’s the least they should get after going through the process that they do. It is only fair for them to obtain the right to vote again because at the end of the day they did what was required of them to become a part of society again and what is the use of that if they cannot even vote?

Who our next leader is can rely on the voice of only one person. Before America was born we didn't have a say in who our next leaders would be. The king was the king no matter what the people thought about him. Since then things have changed. Therefore, all Americans should vote because we need to exercise our right to vote, our leaders have a direct impact on our lives and, because if you took no part in helping to decide who our next elected officials will be you have no right to complain about who it is.

The research will examine voting rights in relation to voting right inequalities and the society’s effort to have an all minority groups included in the civic process. The research will look into several historical factors that contributed to voting rights inequalities and how the society has evolved to solve issues related to the right to vote.

Suffrage has been a universal right in the works for well over centuries in America. At its inception, the United States of America only let landowning Caucasian men to vote, while excluding minorities and women. With copious amounts of protest, those groups eventually got their suffrage, and now voting is comfortably open to anyone eighteen or older. One would assume that with such open doors for voting, that the vast majority of people would line up at their voting booths and cast their ballots with glee. Much to the detriment of this assumption, voting percentages are painfully low and those that do vote tend to be either incredibly biased towards their political party or too old to see the effects of their votes come into play. Thus, by lowering the voting age to sixteen, there would be more diversity in the ballots, a larger voting turnout consistently, and little to no downside for doing so.

In text 3, line 27, it says “ In fact, some people might even interpret mandatory voting as a violation of the First Amendment’s prohibition of compelled speech.” If mandatory voting becomes a law, it will be against the First Amendment so the national government basically breaks that Amendment. Which also means that the government could most likely make more things mandatory and start breaking other amendments or laws. Will most likely lead to chaos.

The author also made valid points on why people should use their right to vote. He stated that “If you can vote and do not, you have no right to complain about the results and the policies you do not like.” (Page 11). There has been a dramatic decline in participating voters since the 1980s, which the author states here “Among that population in the U.S. that is eligible to vote, we rank next to last in voter participation among 21 industrial democratic nations of the world… In the 1980 presidential election 74,000,000 did not vote. In the 1988 presidential election 90,000,000 did not vote! It was the lowest since the 1924 election of Calvin Coolidge. It was worse in the 2000

I believe that the voting age being lowered to 16 could possibly be a good idea, if the people are educated about what/who they're voting for. In the second passage it states, "America ranks at the bottom of developed naitions in turnout; with a voter turnout of 38%". This in itself is a problem. The first passage suggests that we could fix this by allowing people to vote from home or use Mobile voting booths. While the second passage says we should lower the legal voting age to 16. As I stated above, I believe lowering the voting age could possibly be beneficial if we could educate the youth about what they're voting for and get them more interested in voting. The first passage indicates that, "In 2012, 62% of eligible voters participated".

It would be a good idea to have a law that required registered voters to vote in elections. If there was a law that made people vote, or at least gave them some incentive to vote, there would be a large increase in the amount of people voting. According to the paper by Eric Weiner Australia’s percent of registered voters voting in elections increased from less than 60 percent to 95 percent. That is over a 35 percent increase which is a huge deal when it comes to the amount of people voting, verses those who aren’t. In Australia there is only 5 percent of registered voters who aren't voting while in america is about 43 percent of voters according to Washington post. That is a huge difference.