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If you must hold your nose, so to speak, vote for the one you feel would better guide the country, state, or city. Do your duty as a citizen. Voting is the greatest privilege we have as Americans.
After nearly two decades of living in the D.C. metropolitan area, I finally joined America’s most exclusive club: people who complain about politics while actually doing something about it.
At least 40% to 90% of American voters stay home during elections, evidence that low voter turnout for both national and local elections is a serious problem throughout the United States. With the ...
Too many people complain about politics but don’t vote, she said. Her attitude: “You can’t say s*** if you don’t vote!” Another voter, Starlet Sato, said she voted for Trump and ...
In Puerto Rico, for example, women did not receive the right to vote until 1929, but was limited to literate women until 1935. [122] Further, the 1975 extensions of the Voting Rights Act included requiring bilingual ballots and voting materials in certain regions, making it easier for Latina women to vote. [117] [118]
They say if you don’t vote you can’t complain,” Canther said about his Senate vote. “I felt both of them were flipping back and forth on certain things," he added, referring to the ...
The issue was noted by Nicolas de Condorcet in 1793 when he stated, "In single-stage elections, where there are a great many voters, each voter's influence is very small. . It is therefore possible that the citizens will not be sufficiently interested [to vote]" and "... we know that this interest [which voters have in an election] must decrease with each individual's [i.e. voter's] influence ...
Wyoming was the first state in which women were able to vote, although it was a condition of the transition to statehood. Utah was the second territory to allow women to vote, but the federal Edmunds–Tucker Act of 1887 repealed woman's suffrage in Utah. Colorado was the first established state to allow women to vote on the same basis as men.