Essays on Elections

The 2016 Presidential Elections The 2016 elections represent the second time that Democrats have won the majority vote but still lost the presidential elections. While the presidential election in 2000 was a close run, it pales in comparison to Trump's election to the office. Philip Bump recaps what happened in the...

Electoral reforms in British Columbia has been a recurring issue for the last two decades. As of recent, British Columbia has been using a single-member plurality system. The electoral system experts campaign against the single-member system arguing that it distorts the voting intentions of the people in federal elections particularly...

The Russian interference in the 2016 presidential elections cost Hillary Clinton greatly. The Russians used a variety of techniques to influence American citizens from voting for Hillary Clinton and encouraged them to vote for Donald Trump.  Questions are still asked how Trump managed to win the election while he only...

Political Parties and Voter Registration Political parties tend to focus on the highly educated, affluent, and employment individuals while abandoning the other category of citizens. For instance, only 62% and 68% of individuals with annual incomes less than $ 2500 and $20,000- $39,999 respectively are registered voters while 87% of people...

The disinterest of many people from, civics, politics and other democratic processes has raised a lot of concern among policymakers, politicians, and even scholars (Stolle " Hooghe, 2004). Young people have especially been the focus of this concern; there is a feeling among many politicians and policymakers that young people...

The Electoral College System The Electoral College is a significant body of individuals chosen to represent the states of America in electing the President. In doubt of voting effectiveness, the Electoral College was formed by the Founding Fathers or the Framers of the Nation to ensure citizens of America elect the...

The restriction of voting for those with a college education is a denial of human rights. Democracy states that each citizen of a country has the right to vote once they are of age. Popularly, eighteen years mark the transition to adulthood for most countries and hence, anyone who attains...

Voting and Democracy Voting is an essential exercise towards the democracy of a nation. It is only through voting that we can manage to bring change to the government and ensure the citizens get quality. Voting can either lead to long-term suffering on citizens when the wrong leaders ascend to power...

The rate of the white ethnic group dropping from the ideologies of the Democrat party has increased over the years. The slow change of the supporters had been attributed to Democrats losses of the south due to their backing of Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Act of...

The Soundness of Democracy and the Role of Elections The primary metrics for the soundness of democracy in the modern day societies include the ability to host free, fair, and open elections whereby the citizens cast secret votes to choose their preferred leaders to achieve consented leadership through the electoral process....

Analysis of Whether or Not Mandatory Voting Should be Encouraged Referring to the definition of democracy as per the concepts of active citizenship and equality, this paper gives an analysis of whether or not mandatory voting should be encouraged. A liberty argument suggests that compulsory voting is first of all not...

Low Voter Turnout in Texas Low voter turnout has become one of the most common problems in the United States politics. In fact, it is admissible to indicate that less than a half of the country citizen vote in most elections. In particular, Texas has been of the most affected state...