The Influence Of Voting On Tuesdays

Americans are fortunate enough to have the right to vote, so we should take opportunity to be heard. “...many Americans do not vote” (Doc BE). Some Americans do not take the chance to vote. For example, “Since World War II, no presidential election has ever involved 65% or more of registered voters!” (Doc BE). Voting is important because, “People express their consent or disapproval in many different ways” (Doc BE).

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.

A very controversial topic in the United States is whether or not Americans should be required to vote. Voting is a very essential piece to democracy, but many Americans today are not attending their voting location and supporting the candidate they feel is best. In recent elections, just 60% of registered voters casted their vote for a candidate. This is an issue that many people are not happy about, but whether or not there is reason to fix it is the other side to the case. Voter participation is an issue that has been going on for years, and no laws are in place currently to bring it up. Americans have been proud to live in a “free country”, and a law forcing citizens to vote may be against America’s principles. Compulsory voting should

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 www.washingtonpost.com, they reported that thirty-five percent of people who didn’t vote, didn’t as they couldn’t get time off from work or leave school. If these people had to vote, they would have to have time off to do so, allowing more people to vote. However, there is another reason to make voting required for all United States citizens. Currently, U.S. citizens living in any territory of the U.S., can’t vote. This includes notable territories like Washington, D.C., American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, but includes all. Also, felons can’t vote in various states. ww2.kqed.org reports that up to six millions Americans will not be able to vote due to felon disenfranchisement laws. If all U.S. citizens had to vote, it could pave the way for getting voting rights to these

The second reason i feel this way is because it will save our government money. Political parties would not have the need to go out and spend money on advertisements telling us to go out and vote(“Compulsory voting”13-14). This means our nation's debt will not be raised nor

Many voters are tied up in work during the daytime and evening. Extending the polling hours would help cover the votes of more working Americans. Another thing that may increase turnout, that some states are already adopting, would be to allow voters to register on election day. Many voters fail to register on time for various reasons and therefore do not vote. Various ad campaigns targeted at simply getting people out and voting would also make people interested in taking a more active role in elections.

In recent years, due to non compulsory voting, our national affairs and international affairs have been affected. America should have compulsory voting because of increased voter turnout rates, the questionability of the legitimacy of our government and the education of politics for the people.

“Your vote is your voice as an American citizen. It's your opportunity to be heard, to hold elected officials accountable for their elections and to have a say in important issues that affect your community. On Election Day, every vote matters”. Anonymous

The U.S Constitution gives the states considerable latitude in the way of conducting elections. The American citizens have many opportunities to vote. However, a turnout in American elections has dramatically decreased over the past several decades. In order to address this issue, majority of states have allowed absentee voting reforms. These convenient reforms are thought to increase the voter turnout in the elections, as well as to reduce administrative costs.

For many countries mandatory voting has worked well but that alone does not mean that it will work well for the United States. There are many factors that have to be considered first. All countries that have implemented compulsory voting are smaller than the United States and do not share all of our culture and values. Many Americans prize their sense of freedom and place it above all else. Mandatory

The Constitution generally leaves it up to the states to organize congressional elections, but gives Congress the power to set new rules for federal elections as it sees fit. In 1842, Congress passed an important law requiring single-member district elections in every state, standardizing congressional election practices nationwide. The same law set one standard Election Day—the Tuesday after the first Monday in November—throughout the country. We still use the same Election Day

During the nineteenth century the United States’ economy was based on agriculture. Farmers lived faraway from cities or places where polling was held. In addition, people used horses and buggy to commute to places. To set the appropriate day for election, lawmakers needed to allow extra day for some farmers to arrive on the Election Day. They realized that Monday would not work for those citizens who needed to travel on Sunday, a day of Sabbath. Lawmakers knew that Wednesday would not work as well because for many farmers it was important market day. Thus, Tuesday was considered the most suitable day to vote.

My bill is to switch the national voting day from a tuesday, to a weekend. This will increase voter participation and therefore have a better turnout for our country. Our country runs best when the most people vote. Tuesdays are at the beginning of the week, arguably the busiest time for parents and students alike. Changing the day from tuesday to the weekend will make it easier for all registered voters to vote every november. The voting hours would be from 7am to 7pm on saturday and sunday. This will now give two days, instead of one, to give people a chance to cast their votes. When the voting day was first chosen to be on a tuesday, it was based on the availability of most citizens, which at the time was on tuesdays. Most people at the

Okay, so I don’t have a sense of humor. I did not see the humor in the video, because, A) the guy Jacob Soboroff, didn’t know why and had to hunt down the answer, B) the audience didn’t know why, either, C) and neither did the candidates, but they were laughed at because of that. Didn’t anyone take notice that they at least didn’t lie about not knowing? For a political candidate isn’t that a plus? : ) Personally, I did not know why we vote on Tuesday and truthfully, I did not care and still don’t. I also do not believe it “is just a stupid law” as Soboroff said, because there was clearly intelligent and common sense logic behind it. And I also disagree that changing it to the weekend would bring about more voters. I don’t recall ever hearing someone claim they didn’t vote because it was Tuesday. But I have heard lots of people putting things off because heck it’s the weekend, and their own personal time. And like the video pointed out with Chris Rocks joke, when is the majority of voting age people partying? They are partying on the weekends. I’m not so sure our nation would be better off, if weekend partiers were casting votes. I’m just