Voter

The dependent variable in this study is voter turnout rates, expressed as a percentage of the eligible population. Data was collected from two time periods; 1960-1970 and 1971-1980. The eligible voting population was calculated for each country from data reported by the International Labour Office in 1977 and data reported by the United Nations in 1984. In his article Political Institutions and Voter Turnout in the Industrial Democracies, Robert Jackman describes the correlation that exists between

Overall, the 2016 voter turnout was lower than ever before. The United States is a country that has some of the lowest voter turnouts in history, and unlike Australia, the USA doesn't make voting mandatory. About 48 to 57% of citizens normally participate in the presidential election voting but in 2016 many American’s decided to opt out lowering the voter turnout to a mere 55% of the American population. When American’s didn't vote that decision most likely came due to the fact that Donald Trump

The decline in voter turnout at the turn of the century has always been a concern for politicians and scholars alike. The very fact that voters are responsible for changing or keeping the country’s leadership means that this development should be a concern not only to a few individuals but also to the whole nation. The government, political parties, and focus and interest groups have tried to find ways to increase the motivation to vote while easing the voting process. However, these methods have

election “only 64 percent of qualified citizens voted” (Carl, 2013). Such a lack of voting has been termed “voter apathy,” which is defined as “a phenomenon in which citizens with the right to vote choose not to” (Carl, 2013). It is common knowledge that throughout history minority voters are most often the ones who express this indifference towards voting in comparison to whites (Carl, 2013). Voter apathy often results from the misguided perception that one person’s vote will not make a difference. A

different reasons for exceptionally low voter turnout in the United States. These reasons range from not having mandatory elections to when the elections are held, but there are two reasons that I find to be the most influential. Voting used to be something special; a privilege. Now, elections are held so frequently that they no longer have that allure to them. That combined with the feeling that your vote won’t change the overall outcome causes for more potential voters to avoid the polls. The second

Voter turnout in the United States is a method of examining who votes. High and low voter turnout is commonly associated with certain distinguishable categories, like age, sex, race, education, etc. For certain easily defined categories, like age or sex, it is not difficult to understand the relationship. Men typically vote one way and women typically vote another way; the older one gets the more he/she votes one way and the younger one is the more he/she votes another way. Education on the other

The voter turnout in Texas has been low for a very long time. For the past 50 years the numbers of citizens that participate in the national, state, and local elections have decreased. Voters turn-out is the percentage of voters that are able to vote legally, that actually cast a vote in the elections. There are a number of things that can increase the percentage but I’m sure these examples will never happen. I believe that the voter turnout is low because people aren’t into politics because many

The nature of voter turnout is a broad concept in modern American politics and can be broken into many topics: how voter turnout varies by state, by election, by demographics, and whether or not voter turnout actually matters. Despite public opinion that voter participation is declining and that such participation matters, voter turnout is about the same as it was in the 1960s and has not undergone serious changes, and turnout only actually matters in competitive or local elections, rarely national

Voter turnout has been declining in the United States throughout history through the potential voters’ personal choice not to vote and ineligibility. According to research a large percentage of individuals are not voting because political parties fail to appeal to the voters and this leads to the voting population losing interest in the campaign, while others postpone registering and by the time they realize their delay the election is upon them. This downward trend of voter turnout can be traced

make voting a more simple and inclusive process, including the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (Ash & Lamperti, 2013, p. 14). However, the article “Elections 2012: Suppressing Fraud or Suppressing the Vote?” by Arlene Ash and John Lamperti strongly argues that in the past decade, these efforts have been curtailed through regulations to prevent voter fraud (2013, p. 14-15). Examples