Why Not To Vote In America

Nearly forty percent of people will not vote for president. If people had to vote, this number could rise. According to www.electproject.org, voter turnout has hovered at around sixty percent for decades. With voting being such an important thing, you’d expect this number to be higher, and it should be.

Many Americans don't vote because they think their vote doesn't count. This is a common excuse that's rooted in the belief that the Electoral College chooses the President, not the voters. In reality, the popular vote in

A big question we face in America is, why dont American citizens vote? We have this amazing oportunity and some don't use it! Some Americans don't exercise their right to vote even though others fought so hard for it! So lets go over some reasons why some people might not vote. Americans sometimes have a negative view of government, maybe they don't believe their vote counts, or generational changes. I can understand why citizens have a negitive view on government, its hard having a positive view when not everyone gets their way, well that's not how the world works. To address people who do not believe their vote count, thats their own problem. They should probably educate themselves. For the generation changes, they say that the younger generations

There are many people in this country that don’t take the time to exercise their right to vote, and probably just as many that don’t know how much time and effort is involved in the road to the presidency

Voting for politicians to represent us, the people, occurs quite frequently than people think of or expect. We vote for our nation’s president every four years, senators 6 years, and house of representatives every two years on an even ending year. In addition, on voting day, people also have the opportunity to vote for measures that affect the local community at city level, and at the state level. This means that citizens have the power to change their community. For example, in the last ballot, residents of Temecula were able to vote for Measure S. Measure S proposed to raise the local tax by 1%, to help fund emergency response times. According to the website, Votersedge, a total of 38,646 people voted for or against the measure. In a city that has a

Another presidential election year rolls around for America and what will the vote decide? Sometimes equally debated and foretold, another issue exists that does not appear on the ballot. How many people will turnout at the polls to cast their vote for their governmental representatives? The patterns of American history would say that not very many will show up. “Indeed, voter turnout has fallen from its peak of 63 percent in 1960 to just below half during the last presidential election, in 1996. As a result, the world's leading democracy ranks 140th in voter turnout among democratically elected governments (Cooper).” They make this point at what seems like every election in recent

The socioeconomic statuses are based on a person’s education, income and occupation. Meaning that the people with the most money, time and skills are most likely to participate in political events. This tends to revolve around older people with higher education, time and higher income. People with less socioeconomic status, which is a feature commonly associated with people of color, are often those who are most in need of government aid to improve their daily lives.

"I'm too busy, and the lines are too long.", "I don't like the candidates.", "My vote won't count anyways.". These are just a few of the reasons people don't vote. However none of the reasons are good excuses. In the U.S. 72% of Americans are registered to vote, however only about 63% actually vote. What most people don't realize is that means only about 45% of Americans actually vote.

Have you ever noticed the amount of Americans who do not take full advantage of the glorious opportunity of voting? It is not uncommon to hear of somebody not voting, which is thought provoking considering people in other countries would never fathom the idea of “voting”. American people give an array of reasons why they choose to withhold their vote, all of which are lousy excuses. These excuses end up being detrimental to the country. Several causes of not voting exist as well as several effects of not participating in elections.

“If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.” (Emma Goldman). Many people that are not nearly as well educated as Emma Goldman share a similar belief when it comes to the idea of voting. On many occasions we encounter the multitude of people who refuse to vote, or sometimes even register to vote because they feel as though their vote does not count. Many wonder where this belief stems from, but it is very simple: The main two reasons people feel as though their votes do not count are the Electoral College interference in voting, and the two-party system diminishing many of the values of the individual. In essence the only sensible way to increase voter turnout and political involvement from American citizens is to diminish both the power of the Electoral College, and the long-standing establishment of the two party system.

Voting is the most influential tool we have as citizens of the united states to make changes to our country, it is how we choose our local representatives, all the way up to the president. In 2014 the voter turn out was down to 49% of eligible adults, the lowest it has been since WWII. That means that more than half of American adults are not being represented, that is 124,734,356 people.

Did you vote in the last election? Do you know anything about the people who were running? One of the main reasons why so many Americans don’t vote is because they think that their vote doesn’t matter or won’t make that much of a difference. The reality is this is not true, the lack of understanding also plays a role is why some people just don’t vote. After all, the next president doesn’t just get picked overnight. The process is very long and complicated, it includes three major issues which are touched on by several candidates coming from two different parties.

    Many americans don't vote. “In 2000, more americans watched the survivor finale than voted for George W. Bush or Al Gore.” - USA today july 3 2001 (Williams). Many people didn’t vote, yet they all had time to watch survivor. “In recent years, voter turnout in popular elections has hovered around just 50%.” (willams) as williams says people don’t show up to vote. America land of the free to vote and pray isn't voting and exercising their right. What effect does this have? Well many elections (all elections) are determined by the electoral college not because the popular vote is irrelevant, the electoral college is supposed to vote based on popular vote, however it doesn't actually mean anything many states don’t require the college to vote based on the popular vote so many vote any way they please. Meaning the popular vote has little to no significance. Does it always have to be like this? No if the other 50% decided to vote and the outcome stayed the same many people would protest and fight the fact many

We as citizen get the opportunity to vote on our leaders for the community and country, but not all citizen actually vote during election. The percentage of the eligible voters that actually voted is called voter turnout. Within the recent presidential election, the voter turnout was 58 percent. So by the other 42 percent of eligible voters not voting the true outcome of all of the US citizen has not been included in the election. You would think if the entirety of the US citizens voted then the outcome of the election would have changed.

“The Electoral College contributes to lower voter turnout rates” (Political Participation in the United States). Many Americans believe that their votes will not count due to the Electoral College system. The Electoral College directly elects the President of the United States, while the people indirectly elect the President of the United States. The candidate who wins the popular vote can still lose if he or she does not win the Electoral College vote. Americans think that voting is a waste of their time because of the incumbency rate in the Congress. The