Why Voting Should Be Mandatory

Not many countries have compulsory voting, in fact approximately only 40 countries do, and around 160 do not. As said in Document D, “Italy has mandatory voting and punishes non-voters. Italy ranks low among western countries on political satisfaction”. The document then goes on to say that “Switzerland and the U.S have the lowest voter turnout for western democracies, but among the highest satisfaction rates with their political institutions”. It is proven that countries with required voting get low satisfaction rates from their citizens, and countries that give their citizens the choice leave their people more happy with their government. Also, according to Document E, voting is required in Peru, and a fine of 35 U.S dollars is enforced if you do not vote. For someone in Peru who probably does not make much money, it could be very tough to leave your job and miss out on pay to vote. Also a fine for someone who cannot make it to the ballot could lead to much governmental resentment. Systems like these would leave Americans very frustrated with their government, and it will be very inconvenient for a large population of the working

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

There are many important reasons to vote. First, to honor founding father Benjamin Franklin's challenge to us all. Second, so you can complain with integrity. Third, for the anticipation of seeing who wins. In the following paragraphs I will be talking about these reasons on why it's important to vote.

The American citizens should vote because if they want to see a change that will benefit them as a citizen of the country, it is mandatory for them to partake in the elections in order for the changes to be made. “An argument against compulsory voting is that it is inconsistent with the freedom associated with Democracy” . However , the true meaning associated with Democracy is that it is a system of government in which a power vests in the people. Through this way , the American citizens voices will be heard.

Every four years, the one election that everyone body knows about comes around, the presidential election. You would think that voter turnout would be 100% for such an important event but on the contrary most presidential elections only have a voter turnout of 65%. U.S citizens have many reasons as to why they dont vote, for example: Can't get off work, no way to get there, and having no good candidates. To fix this problem, other countries made it so that voting, is required. I believe that Americans should not follow suit in this policy, by not making voting required. Americans should not be required to vote for three main reasons: there would be more uninformed voters, political dissatisfaction, and our freedoms would be touched.

Why is important to vote ? ‘‘First’’ It is everyone's responsibility to vote so that they can help choose the laws that are passed. “Second” we all choose a president to show our nation it can be great if we try more clean it uaste . We look for a smart , reliable for us to trust he or she will protect us. We will choose one that has experience in working with us and others.

The largest issue in our current voting structure is that of low voter turnout. Ideally, we want to include as many people in the voting process so that a diverse range of views and opinions can be expressed. That's not currently the case. In the year 2012, only 62% of eligible voters actually cast their ballots. This figure is particularly scary when compared with voting participation in other developed countries such as Belgium, Austria, or Germany. Our goals should be to address this issue. While lowering the age is one proposed solution, it doesn't quite tackle the depth of the problem.

It’s important to vote because it is a right that was fought for. It’s also important to vote because whoever becomes president decides the future of our country. Voting gives us a choice of different leaders, some elects are for our town and some are for our president. Citizens voting for their government could affect everything in our life. When voting our voices are heard and took into consideration. Voting for our future government shows that us as citizens have been spoiled with a right to vote,so we should vote because people fought for us to have this right. A lot of people who don’t vote always complain about our government, but if they vote they kind of have control of who becomes our leaders. Voting shows that people who vote

In order to have a democracy, we need people to vote and to participate in elections whether they are local or national. When we compare how young and older people vote, we can clearly see that older people tend to participate more in voting. I believe in other to increase participation we need to making voting easier. We need to make it to where people could register and vote from their mobile devices. This could get the younger population to participate more and increase the turnout. People might be concerned with people voting for other people, however I think

Today in society, people twist the truth and create internet memes about candidates, leaving our population ignorant and brainwashed. Many people are extremely uneducated, and forcing them to vote will wreak havoc on our

First of all the article says that making voting mandatory in countries such as Belgium, Australia or Greece resulted in higher voter turnout. The author notes that in countries with non-mandatory voting, the turnout is rather low (eg. 60 percent). The lecturer debuts this argument by asking if high voter turnout is good after all. He claims that less voters means more informed voters; people who go to the elections really want to vote and generally vote smarter.

Compulsory voting does not prove legitimacy of a democratic government. Increasing turnout is significant statistically, but if producing high turnout mostly from random votes would put the country’s future at stake by sabotaging the government’s credibility then what we need are wise and well-informed voters than the uninterested and uninformed ones. In line with Jakee and Sun, advocating the maximization of voter turnout—by any means, including coercion—is fraught with more complications than the commonly accepted one of infringing upon the citizen’s individual rights in the electoral process: as more random voters are forced to cast ballots, the more likely the electoral outcome will approximate a coin toss. Politicians and political theorists

After Australia, Singapore, and Switzerland implemented compulsory voting and the turnout of voters grew, other democratic countries began wondering if the idea should be implemented globally. Research began on how this implementation affected countries with compulsory voting in place and how it would affect other countries such as Canada (Twomey, 2013). The idea that Canada, or another similarly democratic country, should pass a policy of compulsory voting would be against the very foundation of freedom that defines a democratic state. It brings to mind three questions with it, is voting a right or duty, does it change the level of intelligent political participation, and does the compulsion goes against all

The reasons why I choose to do about this topic is that I learned a lot about the voting system and elections in civics class. I personally find election to be both interesting and educational, when I watch elections on T.V. and read a candidate 's platform online and I would really want to apply what I learned in civics class by having the right to vote.

An obvious benefit of mandatory voting is that it would increase the voter turnout drastically. Other countries have already proven this. Belgium's voter turnout is one of the highest in the world.4 Perhaps this is due to the fact that Belgium implemented compulsory voting in 1892 for men and in 1949 for women.5 This is just one country though. If it was the only one with these results, one could claim that there is no correlation between compulsory voting and high voter turnouts. However, Belgium, Turkey, and Australia all have mandatory voting and average voter turnouts above 80%.6 In fact, Australia had similar turnout rates to the United States before adopting compulsory voting. In its election of 1925, the voter turnout jumped