In America there is an issue involving the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs) to record votes on canidate choices. An article titled "Everyone Should Be Able to Vote" states with reliable facts, the pros or positives of using EVMs. However, another article titled "Electronic Voting Is a Bad Idea" states the cons or negatives of using EVMs. Both articles have reliable facts but both are one sided to the topic.
Electronic voting machines (EVMs) allow people with language barriers to more privately and confidently vote for their chosen canidate. The machines also have audio and voice systems for those with vision related disabilities. People with such disabilities are twenty percent less likely to vote due to the lack of accomidations.
Voting has been a core part of our government since the very beginning, however, many citizens chose not to take part in this essential participation. To prevent any one person from gaining too much power voting was put in place as well as checks and balances in the system by the founding fathers. While not everything is decided by voting because our government is a Constitutional Republic, voting is by far the most important way a citizen can participate in the government. Therefore, it’s baffling that people chose not to vote. As Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.” While we can all agree that voting is important there is a debate on whether it should be mandatory. Voting should be an optional but important way to participate in the government.
Being able to cast my first vote in the 21st century is a privilege. My generation needs to accept their patriotic responsibility and vote because many reforms are needed in order to carry us into the new millennium. Voting reforms are necessary to inspire political participation for other modifications and adjustments needed in areas such as health care, education, and Social Security, all which we as young people will face in the future. Participation in elections is necessary to facilitate and enable progress, but our present day system of voting is expiring by frustrated Americans.
Maine has changed how it will choose most officeholders, becoming the first state in the country to adopt ranked-choice voting, also known as instant-runoff voting.
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.
In the Unite States of America i belive that it would not be asmart idea to use electronic voting machines beacause it would be unfair they would not be counting all the votes correctly. Also they can rig the election like the problems they had in ohio as they wasted that amout of money. It would not be a good idea to use electronic voting machines because the machines may also not count the votes correctly or place the vote uner another canidate. Also there has been alot of errors with the electronic voting machines, like they've also been hacked plenty of times witch causes the election to get ruined. There is also two sides to everything like the electonic voting machines also did alot of good work and made it easier to vote for the people
Technology has helped us in a lot of ways including when we vote. This is not without glitches though. In the 2000 presidential election, the voting machines were bought even
For several decades, the American people are skeptical if their votes count due to various voting method. The election process is divided with dissatisfaction and inaccuracy in governmental elections. Set from the voters addressing how they vote, it still means a lot to them because it is what gets the people voice heard. There are voters that are uncertain of trusting the candidates that will make their laws and regulations, however many voters are still incline they have the power to vote them out from office. But when different types of voting equipment’s have their own problems it becomes prevalent to voters. There are ways of voting that would sometimes fail and the discovery of fraud in the voting process can make people question the American election. The rights and privilege to vote is what many Americans believe is the most essential part of being a democracy nation and an American. By keeping the American citizen trust the voting operation system must work properly and establish that the people’s votes are counted for. The American election administration is facing the new generation of technology that is designed for the usage of voting. The management of hardware and software can be a great challenge for many upcoming election throughout the years ahead. Today, there are several methods of voting equipment’s that are used for the election system. They’re
In America the two party system has thrived and as a result people will choose to be either Republican or Democrat without following every idea their respective parties, while I'm not saying that all people don't follow the entire platform most do. In the article Most Voters Aren't Stupid, the author states "Essentially, citizens are constantly exposed to political information... but because most people generally pay little attention to politics, they internalize the information relatively uncritically, filling their minds with partially consistent ideas"(Corley, 2012). People will take their information and pick out the aspect that follow their subscribed party. It would be difficult for Americans to stop following biased outlets because
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.
In the article “Takoma Park 16-year-old savors his history-making moment at the polls,” author Annys Shin explains how the Takoma City Council made the Montgomery County community the nation's first to lower the voting age from 18 to 16. Ms. Shin explains how Councilmember Tim Male asked, “How do we get more people vote” proposing that in a report seen from Denmark it suggest that younger teenagers are more likely to vote rather than their older peers. The director of the national reform organization Rob Richie stated, “ Eighteen year-olds, it turns out, are not a very good first voting age group.” They believe that by expanding the franchise to 16 and 17 year-olds it will get them into the habit of voting for the rest of their lives. However I do not believe that lowering the voting age will make a difference in the voter outcome.
Although the right to vote is typically viewed as a fundamental human right, this right is not entirely enforced for citizens with disabilities. In fact, citizens with disabilities remain less likely to vote than non-disabled citizens. Lisa Schur and Meera Adya’s (2012) research examines whether people with disabilities are heavily involved in politics, or if they remain isolated in their political views and attitudes. It was found that citizens with disabilities are isolated in their political views, which led to 3.0 million fewer voters in 2008 and 3.2 million fewer voters in 2010 (Schur and Adya 2012). If people with disabilities were to participate more heavily in politics, it could have affected many political races and public policies.
Donald Trump, A president that will either make or break this country in the next 8 years. Suddenly people are wondering how the heck he got elected.He got elected through the electoral vote, the way this country has elected leaders ever since the start of the country, but is it really the best option for electing the leader of the free world? This paper will show why the electoral college is the best option for electing our leader and why it should always be the way we elect our leader.
I think voting should be done via EVMs in the following essay I will tell you why, and also tell you how to fix some of the problems that voters may have with EVMs.The first and one of the most valueable assetts provided by EVMs is it's ability to provide ballots in different languages.A voter in which english isn't thier first language is less likely to go out and vote due to a fear of not understanding what they are voting for which is why a machine that provides ballots in an array of languages will most likely improve the number of voters.Paper ballots come in only 4 languages this is due to high printing cost with the EVM you save the printing cost and provide accessibility to ESOL voters.A second benefit to the EVMs is easy access to
In the Democracy video its states that in the United States everyone has the right to vote throughout the history of the country. Historically the two groups and people that did not have the right to vote, were woman and slaves. It states that they started at 1:28 that women, slaves, ad forgivers wern't able to vote. They gained their right to vote in 1920, when they gained their rights, when slavery was no longer allowed. It's important to all the citizens to vote because people's choice who they want to pick or think something should happen. People should really have that
Nearly 16% of the United States’ population is disabled according to recent censuses, half of which are legally eligible to vote in local, state, and national elections, but despite the sway these politically determined individuals have, the accessibility to extend their voices in the process of making policies is almost nonexistent. Polling booths may be located in obscure locations that do not fully comply with state and federal laws regarding their accessibility. Or a blind voter may not always have the opportunity to take advantage of a Braille ballot, and may also face complications with assuring an accurate measurement of their decisions when being assisted by another person. Throughout the history of America’s