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    are many reasons for this, some that are unsolvable, but as a nation, we must do better to make voting more readily available for all citizens. One way to do this, is to allow early voting. Currently, 37 states allow some form of early voting, but Pennsylvania is not one of them (STATE LAWS GOVERNING EARLY VOTING.) I’m proposing for the Pennsylvania State Government to take action, and allow early voting for the sake of their people. The 2016 election was one that most would consider the most “in your

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    As a result, mandatory voting has gained the attention of many political scientists and political analysts. While there are good reasons to worry about Canadians’ diminishing voter turn-out, it is also fair to say that mandatory voting will not prove beneficial to the future of Canada’s democracy. Although mandatory voting will increase the voter turn-out, it will not create an informed voter base and neither raise a more politically knowledgeable society. Making voting compulsory is accompanied

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    Voting In Democracy

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    electorates who are not wholly educated on candidates, the voting system, or politics in general. While people may have the basic understanding of politics, it isn’t enough to vote wisely. Ironically, this is a society where people can be more fixated on celebrities than political officials- who help the government function. Everyone should be prepared and completely educated before voting. Doing the right thing for the country is not by simply voting, but doing it correctly. This is a crucial and concerning

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    Voting plays an important role in the modern lives that can easily shape the whole world. While some people believe that voting should be voluntary, I believe that voting should be mandatory for more social benefits. This essay will discuss the reasons why voting should be compulsory. Selecting the right candidate is hard and need more people to participate and to achieve that all citizens need to voting and select the future leaders to benefit themselves and their country. By adding the voting

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    to lower the voting age? I believe, that the current voting age should be left at 18. Voters who are older take things more seriously. If they were to lower the voting age to 16 they probably would take it as a joke. To begin with, lowering the voting age would probably decrease the percentage of participation. it also won`t help the percentage go up either. For example, young voters don`t take things like voting seriously. Some of the young voters don`t even care about voting. So there is

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    once you turn eighteen you don't know what you want to do with your life, let alone vote for someone to run the country. The voting age should stay at eighteen because we're suppossed to be adults at that time. A sixteen year old has no care in the world at that point in their life. If we lower the voting age it could cause many issues for our country. Lowering the voting age won't do anything but cause damage to our government. Only fifty one percent of people voted in nineteen forty eight.

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    Voting compulsion can very simply be defined as the process of electoral participation being law binding. However, the process and fundamentals of compulsory voting are not as simple. Twomey, in her article Compulsory Voting In A Representative Democracy: Choice, Compulsion, And The Maximization Of Participation In Australian Elections describes compulsory voting to stand “… at the intersection between the principles of maximum participation of the people in elections and the expression of genuine

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    this essay, I would like to discuss the major obstacles to voting, recent changes to overcome voting barriers and the political influence of changed rules. Low turnout in the U.S. reflects that there are obstacles for people to voting and changes to overcome these obstacles may also bring new problems to different social groups. I will elaborate on these aspects in the following parts. Obstacles to voting and the absent voting of pure independents are the reason of low turnout in the U

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    America’s most recent debate focuses on mandatory voting and if it should be enforced in The Unites States. Of course many people have their doubts about this subject while others have already picked a side. Compulsory voting or “mandatory voting” is a system in which electors are obliged to vote in elections or attend a polling place on voting day. If an eligible voter does not attend a polling place, he or she may be subject to punitive measures such as fines or community service. But surely this

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    immature. The voting age should not change to attemp to increase voting numbers. Children already dread responsibilty and try to dodge things such as homework or chores. Voting to them isnt an important subjuect and is in their eyes tedious. As stated in the article Keep the Voting Age at 18 "62% of the youngest voters showed disinterest in political process by not voting. The 16-18 age group would be even less involved." The youngest voters tend not to vote at all, using a lower voting age to inflate

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