Low Voting In Texas

Low voting turnout: How to overcome it?

Voting is the most famous activity of political participation that could be done by citizens of a country. People need to meet the eligibility requirements to do the voting. The example of eligibility requirements of voting are the voter must be 18 years old, us citizen, and must have an identity card and etc. It seems easy since whoever meet the eligibility can do the voting. However, Texas as one of State in United States has the issue with a low levels of participation. Things that accounts for the Texas low levels of participation are age, education level, social-economic status, and the technical registration of voting itself. Due to the problem, there are some ways to increase voter participation

This is a low number since there is 22 percent of voting age population who did not register to ballots. People who already reach the voting age but decided not to register themselves can be affected by low education level. People who have low education level lack of information about voting and how their vote could give huge impact and big change in their daily life related with government. Moreover, not only uneducated people who will not vote, poor people also tend not to give their right to vote. Poor people will consider how much time they will spent to come to the polls and give their vote to people that they think will not give much impact on their life. Simply, they will prefer to earn money since no one will give them money if they come to the polls. This is different with wealth people who are well educated and wealthy which usually give attention when it comes to election. During the 2008 presidential election, only 41% of eligible voters making less than $15,000 a year voted, compared to 78% of those who made $150,000 a year or more (FairVote, n.d.). These type of people knows if the result of voting will have an impact the regulation related with education that they are taking or business that they are running. “If you are poor, young, not white and lack

Registration has a role for the low contribution as in Texas to be able to vote they need to register thirty days before the election also the political culture that happened back then. There was gradually changes in the way Texas register to vote, starting from poll tax restriction access for poor and white man, restriction for women and Africans Americans, also the obligation to come to the courthouse to register (Participation in Texas Politics, 2006). Even though such restriction is no longer happen today, but it surely takes time to change everything and get people used to the new system. Therefore the changes of number in turnout is not significant from time to time as there were so many restriction and requirements in order to allow people to