Importance of voting Elections form the bedrock of the largest democracy in the world – India. Since Independence‚ as many as 15 Lok Sabhas have been formed through elections‚ the first one being held in 1951-52. The methodology of election is through universal adult suffrage‚ whereby every citizen of India over 18 years of age is an eligible voter in the eyes of the Constitution. The importance of elections in India—and for that matter‚ in any democracy—is as follows: Choice of leadership:
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Voting is important in our society and it is meant to help shape up our government. In America adults can get the right to vote at the age of eighteen. You earn a right to be heard and have right to have your opinion counted on what goes on in this country. I believe that our voting age should not be lower than eighteen‚ because many young voters can vote for foolish laws to get passed‚ they can make our government change for the worse. I believe that the voting age should remain at eighteen because
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participate in his/her government‚ one way in particular is voting. In roughly the past century‚ there has been an all-time low voter turnout in the U.S.. There are factors that affect the amount of citizens that vote every time the opportunity comes. These circumstances mainly are age and education that is provided for that individual. As well as age and education‚ there is also a dynamic that the government set that hinders voter turnout. Other than voting‚ there is another way citizens can be involved in
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Yes‚ I believe that the United States ought to switch to a different method of voting. In my opinion‚ the current method is imbalanced since the Electoral College votes decide the final candidate for the presidency. However‚ I would prefer the Approval Voting method‚ which I consider better than the current method (plurality method). A method in which the candidate with the most first place votes wins (Math in our word by Sobecki & Bluman‚ p. 788). Looking back at the campaign in 2000‚ many people
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07 Application of Biometrics in Mobile Voting Donovan Gentles1‚ Suresh Sankaranarayanan 2‚ 3 1Mona Institute of Applied Sciences‚ University of WestIndies‚ Jamaica dongen02@gmail.com 2Computing & Information Systems‚ Institut Teknologi Brunei‚ Brunei 3Department of Computing‚ University of WestIndies‚ Jamaica pessuresh@hotmail.com Abstract — Voting process in today’s era is behind its time in respect of the usage of modern ICT. The voting process is being seen mostly as a manual
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The rights of suffrage have come a long way since when voting first began. When voting first began only white‚ land-owning‚ males could vote. After many years and the efforts of many people‚ voting in the United States is open to anyone over the age of 18‚ except convicted felons. This privilege has now been taken for granted by many people‚ because they don’t think that their vote would change anything‚ or they just don’t want to vote. Some people think the only way to solve this problem is to legally
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“Voting should not be compulsory in Australia” Popular participation is often cited as one of the fundamental principles of democracy. The right to vote being a freedom that has‚ and continues to be‚ sought after by people all over the world. Despite the value of many political systems’ movement toward universal suffrage‚ the few countries that have confused the right to vote‚ with a requirement to‚ have arguably deteriorated the significance of this achievement. Australia is part of a considerable
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ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEM VIA SMS CHAPTER I BACKGROUND OF STUDY Here in the Philippines‚ people vote through traditional way‚ particularly writing by hand the names of their chosen candidates in an ordinary piece of paper. It has always been a burden to the public school teachers who serve as poll watchers to do the counting of votes which took for days to be done manually. In the other hand‚ various ways of voting system collide. Such as Universities and Colleges who are conducting their search
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election due to various reasons. Is this ok? I believe that voting is a right and people should care about it. it is also good in many ways and I will explain why. Voting can help make minimum wages higher‚ lower income inequality‚ it can better healthcare etc. Voting also allows the voter to feel some sense of control and power over his or her future. No matter what the outcome of the election people are still able to express themselves. Voting is a form of personal authorization that gives you the
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make a difference‚ they are belittled and made out to be careless. In turn these young people start to believe that they can’t make a difference therefore they don’t bother trying. This affect is seen in youth in their involvement in politics‚ the voting rate in Canada for youth voters has been declining for years according to Elections Canada ‚ young adults therefore don’t appear all that interested in politics. Young people don’t vote for numerous reasons that should be addressed in order to
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