Turnout

measures with an overwhelming majority. This article is concerned with the extremely low voter turnout for local elections and the possible solution to increase involvement in local politics. On Tuesday, less than 1 in 10 citizens showed up to cast their ballots in the Los Angeles local election. The irony is that the ballot measures that passed pertained to the process of increasing the low voter turnout rates in L.A.’s local election process. The charter amendments 1 and 2 will move L.A.’s election

cast a legally valid ballot. If countries have a singular goal of simply increasing voter turnout, compulsory voting could remedy this problem and it should be more accurately defined as being compulsory voter turnout (Lever, 2010). The belief that compulsory voting inherently improves democracy is misleading (Lever, 2010). Canada should not force its citizen’s to vote because other then increasing voter turnout, compulsory voting would

(Bureau, US Census.) According to the Pew Research Center, the US ranks 31 out of 35 when compared to other developed nations around the world (Pew Research.) As a country, our voter turnout is much lower than most other developed nations. In Pennsylvania specifically, we rank just 23rd out of 50 states for voter turnout. Looking at the top ten states, (Minnesota, Louisiana,

in national elections since 1972 is an illusion created by the Bureau of the Census because it uses the voting-age population to calculate voter turnout instead of calculating the population of citizens who are eligible to vote (2001, 963). The most important factor to evaluate if voter turnout has decreased is calculating and constructing the turnout rate, “when it equals the total number of votes cast divided by the eligible electorate” (McDonald and Popkin 2001, 963). This means that researchers

period of any constitutional amendment” (n.d.). Now, one would think that the record-breaking ratification of an expansion of voting rights would inspire young people to flock to the polls. Unfortunately, the opposite is true. Since 1972, youth voter turnout has been on the decline. According to the Child Trends Databank, 50 percent of Americans aged 18 to 24 participated in the 1972 presidential election (2015). Nearly three decades later, the percentage of young adults aged 18 to 24 who voted in the

and “fraud” being discussed in relation to their existence, but they have played a huge role in the outreach program to increase overall voter turnout. There have been arguments that they decrease the urgency of the vote which has also been applied to early voting periods and Election Day Registration acts, but they succeeded in increasing the voter turnout rate overall and decreasing the wait lines at the poll, bringing forth the question as to why voting urgency would be a necessity in the process

age to 16. How come we let unknowledgable adults vote, but not smart engaged teens. Teen voices get blocked out while the adults keep talking. If we as a society change our voting age to 16 many positive outbursts will occur, For example, Voter turnout will increase, teens will be more engaged in politics and the world around them, and finally young people will earn a chance to speak up and say who would run their future the best. All of these will happen and most likely even more. To begin, letting

residents, who have not yet gained citizenship, should be allowed to vote in municipal elections because universal suffrage is considered one of the most basic elements for an election to be considered democratic, it would boost Canada’s low election turnouts, and it encourages immigrants to integrate into Canadian society. The topic of non-citizen voting is a hot issue globally and throughout Canada. Previously, discussions about women, prison inmates, and mentally deficient people voting were heavily

The electoral college has limited democracy to people in three major ways: by having the ability to alter results of the election over the popular vote, discriminating candidates to campaign in certain states, and subsidize the decline in voter turnout. The electoral college has made it possible for presidential candidates to win the popular vote but not the electoral college. This indicates that if a candidate is leading the their opponent by millions of votes, he or she can still lose the election

party or just simply voting. Despite the multiple ways in which you can get involved the participation crisis is becoming apparent in recent years, as in 1950 there was an 84% turnout where is in 2015 that number has dropped to 66% and in 2001 the general election saw the lowest turnout ever, being only 59%. The average turnout of local elections and EU election is 35% but it’s not just elections being affected by the participation crisis, party membership is also rapidly declining. In the 1950s, conservative