Voter Voting

Voter turnout in the United States is lower than most of the world’s industrialized democracies because many people believe their vote wont make a difference. The political scientists believe that demographics also have an effect, which is for example older people tend to vote than youths. There are several reasons why older people vote the most are protect social security and Medicare, and many benefits of our government goes to older people. Less mobility is another reason why older people vote is because at age over 65 have more residential stability than younger people tend to move to new address that effect them not to re-register vote and also are more mobile. Older people do have more time that give them time to participate in politics. Last but not least social norms, older people are more likely to be longtime residents in their communities and could be influenced by friends or neighbors.

Voter suppression is a way to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing people from use their right to vote. Their efforts to disenfranchise as many potential certain groups of voters are college students, low-income voters, ex-offenders, disabilities and minorities. Voter ID laws has prevent people of color, women, and young people to make voting so important that help increase voter turnout. Voter ID laws in vary from state to state requires a driver’s license or other state-issued ID to vote only that impact college students to face difficult for them to voting on campus because of government’s failure to recognize students’ college address. The large part of US history is Black voters that were prevent from voting the average participation of African American voters is still lower than white voters. Ethnic...

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...cause it could be neither candidate that would be majority of electoral votes then the House of Representative chooses the president by their vote. If nobody voted, the outcome results would be similar to UK just as back to an absolute monarchy that controls over our freedoms. As I stated in the first sentence if no one votes, it would be a majority of electoral votes because in further detail it means that America can be destroyed by how citizens want to take control of their own desires. It would be a mistake by the people to imposing government that won’t be our representative and would not serve the commonality. The decreased in electoral participation affects public distrust toward politicians and government. The people also have decreased sense of civic responsibility, loss faith in government, and a feeling of impotence to bring about change in the system.