Introduction
Every Four years we have elections for president and in those election we vote for who has the best ideas but in most cases we vote from our local post office or school gymnasium. And, we go on with our lives and the cycle repeats, although what happens when our government tries to make our system more technological advance and in the process cause our system of government more vulnerable to attacks? In this research the major decision is technological voting and how it will impact our system of government and cause more harm than it will good. This is expressed through the topics of Literary Analysis, Cost, misinformation, Hacking, and Inaccuracies.
Literary Analysis
In “Resistance” Tobia S. Buckell express
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“Just Facts.com, a nonprofit organization and educational institute commissioned a nationwide poll of people who say that they vote every time there is an opportunity’ or in ‘most elections’. The poll consisted of twenty questions, one concerning voters, political leanings and nineteen dealing with their knowledge of public policy issues. Overall, a majority of voter gave the correct answer to only four of the questions (Facts.com, 2014).” Census are also a wealth of knowledge for provide insight on misinformation “According to a 2014 census, 84% of U.S. households own a computer and 73% of us households have a computer with a broadband connection to the internet with such a high percentage of us households owning computer, more misinformed voters would be voting due to easies access to voting (Facts.com, 2014).” Including form ethical writers on this topic have exclaimed that the ill-informed are a danger to themselves and also others. “When I’m at a restaurant deciding what to eat, I’m deciding for myself I choose to have a hamburger. I’m the person who lives with the consequence. If it’s overly fatty, I get fat, you don’t get fat. if it causes heart disease I get it, not you.’ brennan said. ‘When we’re voting we are imposing cost upon one another. …show more content…
This perplexing subject all starts with human error in a nationwide study which revealed “About 12 million records with incorrect addresses, indicating that either the voters have moved, or that errors in the information on file make it unlikely the post office can reach them (Pew, 2012).” Also, “A study in Oregon registration cost tax payers more than 8.8million during the 2008 election more than $4.11 per active voter registered, or 7.67 per registration transaction. Meanwhile the lack of data bases and storages causes missing or corrupted information (Pew, 2012).” “Generally they don’t have access to modern data-matching techniques used by private industry and other government agencies to compare records to readily available databases and minimize inaccuracies caused by American mobility (Pew, 2012).” Many more issues within our government have risen to be very prominent problems in our national Electoral College; including, but not limited to the inaccuracies reported in the 2001 election. “In Volusia County, the votes fluctuated at key hours of the evening. George W. bush true tally remains a mystery. What known is that he lost the general election by more than Five hundred thousand votes, but somehow won the Electoral College (Fitrakis, 2015).” Not Forgetting information provided by a 2012 study found that “almost 2.7 million People appear to be registered in two states, and more than 70,000 people could be
One reason why Americans shouldn’t be required to vote is because voting without background information might lead to wrong decisions. Evidence supporting this reason is, in document G (New York Times) (Randy Cohen) states that people that are uninformed, will end up voting for something that doesn’t endorse their interests. This evidence helps explain
In the article “The Myth of the Vanishing Voter” by Michael P. McDonald and Samuel L. Popkin, it is argued that the decline in voter participation in national elections since 1972 is an illusion created by the Bureau of the Census because it uses the voting-age population to calculate voter turnout instead of calculating the population of citizens who are eligible to vote (2001, 963).
Political inactivity on the part of young Americans stems from one fundamental source -- a general cynicism of the American political process. This disdain for politics is further perpetuated by a lack of voter education and a needlessly archaic voting procedure that creates barriers to voting where they need not exist. While many of these existing problems can be rectified with relative ease through the implementation of programs such as Internet voting and better voter education, such programs create only a partial solution.
The U.S. electoral system was created to give every citizen a say in who their elected officials should be, but this system has failed miserably. The right to vote is a basic right that needs be provided to every American regardless of such traits as political party, religion, or ethnicity. It is unethical to deny a person the right to vote and historically that has been a major problem in the United States. Our election system is completely corrupt and voter rights is not the only problem, strategically drawing voting districts is also a major issue. Our current electoral system is corrupt and unethical because of gerrymandering, the breaking down of the voter rights act, and voter ID laws.
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The election of 2000 between Al Gore and George H. W. Bush was not a legitimate election because although Bush had won the popular vote, Gore had won the electoral vote. When it came down to the competition for Florida’s 25 electoral votes, it was awarded to Bush. However, senior citizens in Palm Beach County claimed that the ballot was misleading and they think they voted for the wrong person. This caught the eye of Gore’s campaign team and they asked for a recount of votes in Florida since the Bush had only been .03% ahead of Gore in this state. The punch card ballots themselves were unreliable because they would cause dimples in the papers instead of holes and the machine they ran through would occasionally close the flaps that had once
The presidential election of 2000, George Bush versus Al Gore was not legitimate. Every state knew who they were going to vote for, and who they ended up voting for. Except one state, Florida. Everyone thought Bush won the 25 electoral votes, but it turned out not every citizen's vote was counted. Thus leading chaos, miss trust, and thousands of angry citizens wanting their votes to be counted. Each citizen has the right to vote, and their votes are to be counted. The only time ballots are to not be counted is when there is not a witness signature, postage date stamp, or a date when the ballot was filled out. When the democratic party found out Gore was losing by about 1,800 votes, it triggered an automatic machine recount. There also was an
In “Race and Beyond: Why Young, Minority, and Low-Income Citizens Don’t Vote,” Sam Fulwood claims, “Regardless of whether a favored candidate won or popular ballot initiative passed, our nation suffered because of the number of people who didn’t vote at all” (par. 2). I agree with Sam Fulwood and I believe it is so unfortunate that Americans don’t use this right. Voting is one of the most valuable possessions that Americans are given and yet they do not use. Many of the countries around the world do not grant voting rights to their citizens. These countries either have a dictatorship or kingdom which prevents citizens from voting. People need to understand the sufferings of those people who struggled for this right. When the United States
For several decades, the American people have been skeptical if their votes count due to the uncertainty of various voting methods. The election process is marred with dissatisfaction and inaccuracy in governmental elections. Voting means a lot to citizens because it is what gets the people’s voices heard. There are voters that are uncertain of trusting the candidates that will make their laws and regulations, however, they still have the power to vote them out from office. But when different types of voting equipment have problems those issues affect all voters. There are ways of voting that can sometimes fail, and the discovery of fraud in the voting process can make people question the election results. The right to vote is what many Americans believe is the most essential part of being an American in a democratic nation. To keep the American citizens’, trust the voting operation system must work properly and establish that the people’s votes are counted. The American election administration is facing the new generation of technology that is designed for voting. The management of hardware and software can be a great challenge for many upcoming elections throughout the years ahead. Today, there are several methods of counting votes with equipment that are used for the election system. The voting methods are Direct-Recording Electronic (DRE), Optical Scan Paper
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The ultimate source of political power in the United States lays in the people as we carry out our civic responsibilities. By voting Americans can choose who they trust as a national leader, but the candidate can choose the kind of people who chooses them. Politicians have believed that citizens are illegally meddling with elections by either increasing or decreasing the votes of a favored candidate, but if such a crime exists, and there are many ways of doing so, why is it difficult to find evidence of it.
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