Voting: Trend It Or Trash It?
Voting: Trend it or Trash it?
"The freeman casting, with unpurchased hand, The vote
that shakes the turrets of the land."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Voter turnout is "lower in the United States than elsewhere primarily because there are more obstacles and fewer incentives to vote than elsewhere. The primary obstacle is, of course, the American system of voter registration." If it's not enough proof from the closeness of 2000's election that every vote counts, what more do people need? So- it's true. Every last vote counts. If every person makes a difference, than why is the youth of the country still not taking advantage of their right to vote? Must there always be some sort of incentive for the majority to leave their couches and dorm rooms for fifteen minutes?
As a young voter myself, many reasons why others my age aren't participating in campaigns and elections have become quite apparent over the last couple of months. First of all, as a......
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