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An unfair election is a concept used by national and international election monitoring groups to identify when the vote of the people for a government is not free and fair. Unfairness in elections encompasses all varieties of electoral fraud, voter suppression or intimidation, unbalanced campaign finance rules, and imbalanced access to the media.
Many Americans do not take the effort to learn the voting process, as some see it as a burden. There is an overemphasis on the number of Americans who have claimed they voted. The Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives only recorded 136.8 million people, compared to the 137.5 million who claimed to have voted.
One analysis of a Florida election in 2012 found that 200,000+ people did not vote because of long lines. [49] Some Floridians were forced to wait 6–7 hours to vote. [1] In 2013, after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, several states enacted voter ID laws. Some argue that such laws amount to voter ...
For most, not voting is less about a lack of interest and more about navigating a labyrinthine process designed to shut them out. The truth is, people don’t vote because voting is hard.
The measure, which went into effect in 2018, granted parents of school children the chance to vote in school board races. Oakland voters approved a similar ballot measure in 2022, though the law ...
Most significantly, however, 11% of female non-voters in the survey cited a "Disbelief in woman's voting" as the reason they did not vote. With the exception of 1916, voter turnout declined in the decades preceding women's suffrage. [23] Despite this decline, from the 1900s until 1920, several states passed laws supporting women's suffrage.
Although voting in a country may be compulsory, penalties for failing to vote are not always strictly enforced. In Australia [127] and Brazil, [citation needed] providing a legitimate reason for not voting (such as illness) is accepted. In Australia, if a citizen is asked why they did not vote and they reply that it is against their religion ...
According to the Sentencing Project, as of 2010 an estimated 5.9 million Americans are denied the right to vote because of a felony conviction, a number equivalent to 2.5% of the U.S. voting-age population and a sharp increase from the 1.2 million people affected by felony disenfranchisement in 1976. [101]