After the September 11 attacks on our nation we have had an abundance of national pride. We hang our flags, proudly sing our anthem, and we all go out and register to vote; right? No we don't, which is shameful since voting is the most American thing you could possibly do. Countries such as Cuba, Iraq, and Afghanistan are denied this right we so casually discard. Voting has a long history in our country, and should not be taken lightly. People like Bob Moses and Martin Luther King fought for the rights of African Americans to vote freely without discrimination. Bob Moses was attacked and beaten for his efforts to vote. Women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Motts Began the fight for women's rights to vote in 1848 and continued to do so for more than 70 years. These Americans fought an arduous and in most cases dangerous battle, all for the right to vote, and now their efforts are wasted on an apathetic nation.
In the last two presidential elections less than half of register voters made their way out to the ballot box. Since 1960 there has been a drop in voting with the 1996 elections reaching an all time low. In the 2000 Presidential Election, of the 207 million citizens of voting age, only 105 million voted, leaving 102 million people to give our founding fathers a big slap in the face. The18-24 age group has one of the lowest turn outs for elections. In the 2000 Presidential election there were 23,915 eligible citizens in this age group, only 12,122 are registered voters, and only 8,635 voted. That's a pretty poor showing considering 30 years ago people under the age of 21 weren't given the right to vote. .
I"m sure that these 15,280 people who didn't register and or didn't vote thought they had really good excuses for not voting. Some of these are; "I don't like my party's candidates", "I don't like any of the candidates", I don't have time, and my favorite "my vote doesn't count".
Electronic Voting Everyone believes that the way we vote with punch cards will definitely change. ... Electronic voting would make voting much easier. ... Electronic voting would take away the possibility of human error. ... There would be no interpretation with electronic voting. ... Electronic voting could even go on-line. ...
They claim that the Voting Rights Act lost the moral clarity that it once had in the 1960s. The main conflict within the Voting Rights Act is whether or not the right to vote was included with the right to representation. ... Districting and other voting-related changes became subject to federal veto if discrimination was suspected. ... It asked the courts to measure electoral inequality in voting districts. ... They believe it to promote racial separatism and assume that all blacks think (and vote) alike. ...
One rationale for online voting is found in the convenience it brings to the voting experience. ... People with disabilities may prefer online voting over traditional, in-person voting or voting with the assistance of technology in the voting place. ... Electronic voting machines and vote-by-mail have vulnerabilities of their own, however, and for some voters, the benefits of online voting may already outweigh the risks. ... Online voting is a less visible method of voting and more difficult to understand. ... The two important concepts of having equal voting power are that only eligible voter...
1965 Voting Rights Act was the foremost event in the history. ... In addition, it is also about the people who were in the Voting Rights Act and their struggles to get right to vote. ... The Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibits discrimination of the black people in voting practices. ... Johnson sent the voting rights bill to congress. ... In conclusion, Voting Rights Act in 1965 was the chief event for the black majority people for their vote to rights. ...
To understand the importance of voting it might be easier to understand the suffering that went into allowing all Americans to vote equally. ... Women and minorities had to fight hard to win their right to vote. For instance, African-Americans waited a long painful trial to vote. ... That statement is absurd, just as the thought of not voting. ... The only way to prevent this is by voting. ...
"Women's Voting Rights" This year I have taken part in a social studies unit on the history of voting rights. ...
Many states, North and South, required payment of poll taxes, property ownership, or literacy as a condition of voting. ... Since few blacks had been qualified to vote prior to that date, this exemption applied exclusively to whites. ... Before the passage of the Act, only 383 African-Americans of voting age, out of approximately 15,000, were registered to vote in Dallas County, Alabama. In the three months following the enactment of the Voting Rights Act, 8000 African-Americans were registered. ... In 1965, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act. ...
To some voting may be a waste of time, many seem to think that there vote doesn't count, others think that it is the civic duty to cast their vote, makes them a responsible citizen. ... Even those that do vote, are we voting just because it makes us a responsible citizen? ... I my self had once pondered the thought of not voting. Asking the same question, if I vote would my vote really count? ... The only vote that doesn't count is a vote that is not counted. ...
This requirement effectively prevented many working-class men from voting. ... Furthermore, British law continued to exclude women from voting. ... Gladstone pushed through a reform bill that extended voting rights still further. ... Disraeli argued in favor of women's voting rights in a speech before the House of Commons in 1866 and he also argued that a woman could be a queen and could own land and should be able to vote. ... Then the Parliament granted the vote to women over the age of 30 and they had the right to vote on the same basis as men. ...