The Failure Of Voting In The United States

The most recent case of an unfair election was the Bush vs. Al Gore Election. Robert Hall from the Sun Sentinel says that Al Gore should have won because he had 544,000 more votes than Bush, meaning that Al Gore had the majority vote. Al Gore still lost though because of electoral votes. According to Tom Landform, there have been 4 other cases like Al Gore’s where the candidate lost because of the Electoral College. This is completely unfair to the candidate because these people won their election with the majority votes that are needed but the Electoral College took their victory away from them. The public is a victim of this ongoing problem too. The public does not realize this but people’s votes are being “wasted” or thrown away. Tara Ross says that the winner take all system are “wasting” people’s votes. This happens because in an election the majority vote wins and all the electoral votes go to that party. This means that if a party wins with 50.1 percent it is equivalent to winning with 100 percent. This occurred in the Bush vs. Al Gore election also. According to Tara Ross from Democracy, Al Gore had 2.5 million people who voted for him in Texas but were wasted because of the winner take all system. The Electoral College is ruining the people’s say in who they want and what they want to happen. This system that America has is not working and needs to

It can also happen when a non eligible individual votes, an example would be an illegal immigrant or a criminal who is banned from voting. there is also another case when the actual number of votes is being manipulated, this case usually happens by the government itself. Democrats believe that voter fraud is almost non existent. They argue that it is so rare that there should not be put that much energy on the matter. They say that putting that amount of pressure on the citizens to prove that their own legitimacy is pushing them away from voting. on the other hand, republicans believe that just because voter fraud does not happen too often, it does not mean that it should not be prevented and

Elections, if only due to their colossal size, are difficult to measure. The 2000 presidential election Florida recount exemplifies the issues associated with vote counting and the often unsuccessful implementation of technology to remedy a centuries old process. Technology in the election process is often accompanied by great skepticism, and blunders are not uncommon—see Mitt Romney’s

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

The legitimacy of the election is as legitimate as the information behind 9-11 given to the people by the government. Gore and Bush’s election in 2000 was a prime example of the government's power to do so as they please and go around actual laws they enforce. For instance, Bush swayed a good portion of votes to go against Gore, causing 20000 votes to be unaccounted for by marking them as felons, making them ineligible to vote. The 20000 convicted felons were wrongfully hindered of their 15th amendment by Bush’s decision, to profile people of being a convicted felon, which only 637 were actual felons, due to the names of the people being similar to a felon’s. Another component to Bush’s false win was that of the amount of Republican party in the supreme court and the system. The supreme court was over compensated with Republicans shifting much power for their party candidates. Thus the power within the system was of popularity and helped the disapproval of the recount in order to have an Republican in the executive branch.

The election wasn’t legitimate because the recount was never truly finished. The numbers are important in every election, but in the 2009 election, it was even more so. In the beginning, it starts when the Floridian electronic polling machines start an automatic recount, and that a portion of voters believes that they voted for the wrong candidate. Consequently the Al Gore administration later asked for a statewide recount. While in the middle of the recount the deadline was subsequently reached and were forced to stop halfway. Gore was only down by less than 200. When brought in front of the Supreme Court, the court stated that the recount should be stopped. With the Supreme Court, being an important part, this pressing issue was turned from

The election in 2000 was a pivotal election for voters’ beliefs in the system of voting, over how we vote, who gets to vote, and will all of the votes be counted? In Florida in the year 2000, the voting problem was apparent throughout the day and night. People claimed that the lack of control and clarity is “an abomination of American justice.” Because of the poor planning and systems, Florida was forced to recount their election which brought out all of Florida’s voting problems to the American news. Throughout the dilemma, debates were being held between the United States Supreme Court and the Florida Supreme Court on the results of the many recounts.

Growing up where half of my siblings aren’t born in America and what 's more, one sibling is still not even a citizen reminding me how voting can change everything. Even some of my friends who’s not born here and not a citizen grew up here there whole life with me. It’s terrifying that a vote can send people out of this country to another country where they have no knowledge of, other than being born in their country to get sent back. At first I didn’t care I didn’t think it was much of an issue at all. I was born in America so I didn’t think too much of wouldn’t concern me at all. On top of that, I just assume people are being paranoid that nothing wasn’t going to happen to anyone it is the United States. In my mind the only way they kick you out of America is breaking the law. However, I was mistaken. A few people I knew had been sent away. Voting plays the major part in political history. With reason, voting is subsequently important since it allows us to practice our rights as a Democratic nation. If we don’t vote, then we are allowing others to decide to tell us how to live our life and what’s right for us. Because history and politics in the voting, always had an effect in changing and molding the United States.

The United States of America is one of the few countries that give its citizens a unique opportunity and that is to vote. Many other countries give its citizens the right to vote, however America is different due to the fact that its citizens vote for everything, from their local government to their president. With power this great, it gives more reason to become and informed voter. Each state has congressional districts that are made by the population. Each district has around 711,000 people. Each district gets one representative in the House of Representatives. For example, Portland Connecticut is part of the 1st congressional district in Connecticut. Their representative is John Larson. The 1st congressional district of Connecticut spans over multiple counties including multiple major cities, and example would be East and West Hartford, Hartford being the capital of Connecticut. Other cities include Middletown and Manchester, all which are highly populated and the towns have large impacts on Connecticut’s economy.

The 7 U.S. Supreme Court’s Justices were split between a 5-4 vote, which was a very close vote, but the case went back to a Florida Supreme Court decision ordering a third and final count of all the votes that were causing the problem. Recounting the votes would be unconstitutional to the Constitution’s right of Equal Protection Clause under the 14th amendment. After noticing the mistake would not be fixed , the recount catastrophe finally

Voting. What is voting? Voting means to bring awareness, to bring change, to be the part of the movement, and to be a responsible citizen of the country. Voting is a primary right and a duty of every citizen of the nation to being responsible for the change happening all over the nation and the world. Most citizens in any country are middle working-class families; the problem they are facing should solved by any of the president or government such as equal pay, low wages, job security, employment rights and similar problems.

The United States is often seen as a hallmark of democracy, due to the nature of peaceful presidential transitions along with the abundance of civil rights and liberties as outlined in the Bill of Rights to the United States Constitution. However, on an average, only 60% of eligible voters participate in the presidential elections that take place every four years, and 40% turn out for the congressional midterm elections that occur every two years (Fair Vote). John Winthrop, a New England colonist during the early 17th century, told his fellow Puritans, “We shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us” (Ushistory.org), but has this really lived out its meaning if American elections do not include the voices of everyone?

The film Recount is about what happened behind the scenes of the recount of ballots in Florida for the 2000 Presidential election. After watching this film I do believe that the election was not legitimate. After the first count of the ballets Gore was only down by 1,740 votes. Due to only losing by 3%, there had to be a recount. Subsequently to the machine recount, Gore gained more than 300 votes. The people on the Gore campaign were still not satisfied and wanted to have a hand recount of all the ballets. They were given 5 days to complete the hand recount but people from the Bush campaign did everything they could to get them not to finish in those 5 days. The Supreme Court called the people from Gore’s campaign in and ruled that they do

Most of the experts involved in this question believe that manually counting the ballots per a “call and tally” approach can be a time-consuming process, but on the other hand that it also helps guaranteeing transparency, integrity and trust in the system. Basic training of the electoral officials, for example, could be important because the effectiveness of any vote count process depends on the counting staff. Voter education is also important, as every individual should be aware of how the votes will be translated into seats, and how the count will proceed. And finally, the transmission of results should be structured and transparent in order to guarantee the acceptance of the general outcome of the election.