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Students at Clinton High School teacher Jeff Delezenne's government classes submitted letters to the editor about why voting matters as a class project.
Why the popular vote still matters. This election cycle narrows the focus to only a few competitive states. Presently, only about seven are considered toss-ups, leaving 43 states—and roughly 80% ...
Lake County’s voters can start heading to the polls Wednesday when early voting sites across the county open their doors in advance of the November general municipal election. As local officials ...
Sandel explores why vote buying in political elections (rather than in corporate matters) evokes moral hesitation. He concludes his analysis on the trading of political votes by claiming that democracy is not simply about aggregating the interests and preferences of voting constituents and translating them into policy.
Voting matters was a peer-reviewed academic journal whose purpose is "To advance the understanding of preferential voting systems". Originally published by the Electoral Reform Society (1994–2003), Voting matters then became a publication of the McDougall Trust until April, 2013.
In 2019, the share of the voting-age population registered to vote is around 93 percent. [35] In the 2019 federal election, 77 percent of eligible voters reported that they had cast a ballot. However, one study highlights that the primary reason individuals abstained from voting in 2019 is due to a lack of interest in politics, at 35 percent ...
First, that voting matters and is worth the time and energy. Second, parents, teachers and opinion leaders should talk about why they vote.
The paradox of voting, also called Downs' paradox, is that for a rational and egoistic voter (Homo economicus), the costs of voting will normally exceed the expected benefits. Because the chance of exercising the pivotal vote is minuscule compared to any realistic estimate of the private individual benefits of the different possible outcomes ...