Voting isn’t just
important to Democracy. Voting is
Democracy. You can’t have a successfully
run democratic system without the support and votes of the citizens. The definition of a democracy even has voting
in it. A democracy is a government in
which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly
or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically
held free elections. That is what our
fore fathers envisioned for our country.
We went to war for our democracy.
Thousands of Americans fought for our rights, they shed their blood to
give us what we have today.
Voting rights at one point were
only given to the rich land owners, and then it was amended and given to men
even if they didn’t own property. Now
women can vote and the voting age is 18.
All these things were done to get more people voting. These things would never have happened if
voting was not important. In the last
election fifty percent of eligible voters voted. It was the highest it’s been for a long
time. It’s good to see a high rate of
voting, that means people are doing their part in keeping our democracy
alive. Without the votes of the people
our democracy would expire. It would
turn into a country run by the people in the white house, senate, congress, and
special interest groups. That wouldn’t
make people happy. In fact our
government would become a dictatorship rather than a democracy. Nobody wants to live in a place run where
your thoughts and opinions don’t matter.
Voting gives the ability for people
to express their opinions about the government.
The power lies in our hands when we vote. We are given a really great opportunity that
many people don’t take advantage of. We
are given the opportunity to change what we don’t like and bring about
something you do like. Every vote
reassures our democracy and makes it stronger. We can’t allow for it to weaken
and disintegrate. I bet many people
couldn’t even imagine living in a place where the people’s opinion doesn’t
matter. I know I can’t.
Still today only half of all voters
take part in voting day. Many people are
angry with the government and don’t care to vote. Others despise the candidates or don’t
believe their vote counts, and don’t have interest in the issues that are up
for vote. No matter what their reasons
are they need to vote. You can’t bicker
about the government when you don’t go out and vote and try and change what you
are angry about. It’s you right as an
American and it should be taken advantage of.
Is there any way to get more people
to vote? I think we should do something
to get more people voting. We should
make it a law. We wouldn’t have a
problem then. Everyone would vote. If they didn’t they would get in
trouble. We could also give benefits to
the people who do vote. They could be
given a bonus on their tax returns or something. It could act as some kind of tax right off,
like they do to people who give money to charity. There could also be better representation of
things. Give more of a broad spectrum of
different parties for people to be represented by. That could allow for people to feel like they
are represented more accurately and maybe get people more excited to vote.
Democracy is not possible without
the peoples’ vote. It is has been
important since our government was founded and it always will be, as long as
people do their duty by taking part in the single and easy process of registering
to vote and voting.
