...eligible to vote, in this case above the age of 18. There are a mix of Qualitative and quantitative research. About 8 focus groups of sizes Between 6-8 will be conducted at the electoral commission. A couple Of depth interviews will be conducted. The profile of these participants Are citizens eligible to vote. They are picked at random. These research Methods provide a rich insight to the research problem. On the other hand, quantitative research is as important as qualitative research. Telephone surveys, mail surveys as well as online surveys are the different surveys methods used. The sample size is very large and intends to have a good representation of the voting public. Random digit dialing and lists of addresses are used as the sampling strategy. The findings of this research intends to answer of internet voting is effective and a good alternative voting method in the sense that it reduces the costs of public elections but at the same time be reliable and credible. The total cost of implementing this proposal is averaging to about AU$ 121785. The study should take no more than 3 months to complete Previous research literature on this issue shows a couple of key findings that are crucial to this research. It is important to know the costs of previous elections. The background paper shows that the previous election cost more than $95 million. There has been no previous trials on internet voting anywhere in Australia. In the United States...
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...the voting age changed, people who wouldn’t be in power will probably will make it to power. The voting age of 18 should not be changed to 16. People at age 16 have no political interest most of the time. They wouldn’t vote anyway due to the lack of knowledge. The percentage of voters then will decrease even more due to a larger voting population, but the same amount of voters. This means voting will not change, so there is no point of changing it. Another problem may arise of the younger ones is that they only vote to vote. Due to lack of knowledge of politics, most of the younger people won’t have a preferred candidate. They still might vote, though, just because they can. This might cause the wrong...
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...Should The Voting Age Be Reduced In US? [Student’s Name] Institution This paper intends to explore the advantages and limitations of lowering voting age in US. It entails an internet conducted research from journals and articles that expound this topic. Voting is a crucial human right. It gives young, old men and women to control in the way they are governed. An election helps to give the overview of our democracy. In countries such as UK has established commissions such as The Youth Citizenship commission to ensure that young people are reengaged in political process. In order to support the motion , mostly in federal elections the youth aged 18-24 years do not vote thus need to advocate for lowering of the voting age from 21 years to at least 18 years so that to engage youth in politics. Engaging youth in politics through allowing them to vote when they are as young as eighteen years could encourage them to serving citizens. This also could help in making politicians be accountable young voters as the count for their success. In addition many nations have lowered the voting age such as Brazil and Nicaragua and have experienced advantages of lower voting without any limitations. Local and state government’s decision affect young people thus it is important to help them have a voice over these decisions. This can only be enhanced through giving them the right to vote for their leaders. Since youth below the age of 18 years work and they are taxed...
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...Voting is a right that every citizen of the United States of America is entitled to as long as they are legally allowed to vote according to the constitution and as long as they are of legal voting age. Electronic voting machines can be both a pro and a con in my opinion. I will go ahead and start with the pros. a)Voters with dissabilities, such as poor vision can use the voice and audio systems in the machines for better voting aide. this is my opinion reduces the needed for many poll workers and hence savibg the country some money. And alos hand held devices for people that are not able to stand for the voting period. b)The machines are able to provide ballots in alot of different languages.The USA is populated with citizens from all over...
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...Assess the various measures, other than electoral reform, that have been suggested to improve democracy in the UK. The other measures to improve democracy in the UK are: having more referendums, lowering the voting age, making voting compulsory and finally the use of digital democracy. And this essay will assess all the measures and also it will determine which measure is the best to improve democracy in the UK. The first measure, which has been suggested to improve democracy in the UK, is the use of more referendums. A referendum is a popular vote where the people are asked to determine an important political or constitutional issue directly. A referendum has pros and cons. Firstly referendums are a device of direct democracy, which gives the general public direct and unmediated control over the governments decision making, this ensures that the public’s views and interests are always taken account of and are not distorted by politicians who claim to “represent them”. Another advantage is that referendums actually help to create a better informed, more educated and more politically engaged electorate, which gives the members of the public a strong incentive to cast there vote. Also another advantage is that referendums reduce the power of the government, because the government has less control over their outcome than it does over parliament, and therefore citizens are protected against the danger of over mighty government. And a final advantage to referendums is that there...
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...The internet paper Brandon Perkins His/145 3/7/12 Jennifer Lang The age of the internet has become the center of the universe everything we do or use in the world today is based on a computer (internet), however the internet has changed social activities and created new cultural norms for us today, also the internet is a big impact on political process and information transparency and the dot-com and bust and the economics to the internet how it change the as we know it. The internet change social activities and created new cultural norms in many ways that gave telephones, letters, phones, Face-to-face conversations, newspaper, magazines a lighter job. The internet is a new tool for communication around the world, and the number one popular tool today. Everything is based on the internet instead of writing long letters to someone very far away its just simple to send someone email, which emails been around for about three decades. Today internet has the most social network than any other source out now, such as Facebook, MySpace, black planet Google, craigslist and etc. these are just some of the social net worth they have today that changes and created new cultural norms. The internet impact on the political process and information transparency made the political process and information easier, because for example voting became real simple. Voting had to be counted state by state instead today voting can be handle probably in minutes after everything finish. The internet...
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...Electronic Voting Literature Review Computer scientists who have done work in, or are interested in, electronic voting all seem to agree on two things: * Internet voting does not meet the requirements for public elections * Currently widely-deployed voting systems need improvement Voting on the Internet using every day PC's offers only weak security, but its main disadvantages are in the areas of anonymity and protection against coercion and/or vote selling. It's such a truly bad idea that there seems to be no credible academic effort to deploy it at all. The Presidential elections of 2000 brought national attention to problems with current American methods of casting and counting votes in public elections. Most people believe that the current system should be changed; there is much disagreement on how such changes should be made. The MIT/Caltech researchers [1] “see a promising future for electronic voting, despite its problems today” (under a few conditions). They advocate using the methods currently in use which result in the lowest average numbers of “uncounted, unmarked, and spoiled ballots,” like in-precinct optical scanning. Their report even proposes a framework for new voting system with a decentralized, modular design. Other researchers have done work in electronic voting; while they may not explicitly mention voting from remote poll sites, their work is nonetheless relevant to any effort at designing or implementing a remote poll site voting system...
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...States the word voting can have different meanings for different people, but in general is defined as a fundamental right at the core of what the country stand for which are called democracy and freedom. Young Americans are apt to vote less because of the criticism that stems from the older generations on the inefficiencies with the current administrations and the government at large. Consequently a trickle down effect occurs which leaves younger Americans critical whether their vote even counts. Many factors can be named to explain the low figure of why young people are not voting. The first factor is ignorance that consists in how a person thinks towards the fact that they need to vote. They think one vote is not going to change anything in the elections, so they just decide to not vote when that decision could change a president election. The apathy among young citizens is big; the lack of interest towards this manner, that has been decreasing throughout years and affecting the electoral decisions. The cynicism is the third factor that explains the absence of trust that the people have with the government institutions and the regime as a whole. This cynicism has been defined as oppositional to political efficacy related to trust the economical, social and political institutions. All this problems are happening every time an election is coming and the amount of young Americans that think this way is increasing. The young American people are between the ages of 18-29 years...
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...than long-term factors in shaping voting behaviour. Many factors are said to impact the way in which people vote, some factors been long term whilst some are seen to be short term, however it is evident they all cross over to determine the way in which people vote. However, Peter Pulser once said that ‘ class is the basis of all party politics all else is embellishment and detail’ however this long-term factor has an impact along side other factors that shape voting behaviour these are Ethnicity, the Media, Age and recent events. Firstly, class is an important determinant of voting behaviour and this is a long-term factor. In the 1950s/60s, due to strong class alignment particular groups identified strongly with a class. This meant that people were more likely to turnout and vote for a particular party because of their allegiances. A/B/C1 were linked to the Conservatives because of their strong stance on tax and law and order, whilst C2/D/E were Labour since they were likely to be unionised and or accessing the Welfare State. However, since the introduction of Thatcher’s ‘right to buy’ people began to feel more middle class; also referred to as embourgeoisement. However, since Thatcher C2 voters were labelled as ‘the working class Tories’ with Thatcher receiving more votes from the C2 voters, however in the 2010 general election the conservatives gained votes from all ‘classes’. The idea that class is a key determiner in the way shaping voting behaviour is supported by Peter...
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...1. Who do you know is most likely to believe fake news? Why do you think these people are more likely to believe fake news? I find that the generation or age group who are most likely to believe fake news would be those who are now in their sixties to early seventies. These people grew up in a time that news stories and journalism were all about telling the truth. Back when things like Watergate happened, the real reporters were all about telling all of the facts in the case. They took time to verify sources and print a majority of truth. At that same time, the majority of other events of the nation and the world were reported truthfully. I feel that this leads the people of this age-group to believe the things reported today, no matter...
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...UNIT 2 Answer Key CHAPTER 5 IV. Section 4: Party Organization A. Structure Federalism, nominating B. Organization at the National Level 1. convention 2. chairperson C. State and Local Organization 1. election, caucuses 2. wards Prereading and Vocabulary 2 1. should cut back on expensive government programs Sample definition: Conservatives believe in cutting costs and government programs. 2. came to vote Sample definition: The electorate is the group of people who are allowed to vote. 3. voted at the polling place, elementary school Sample definition: A precinct is a small area from which all the residents report to vote at one location. 4. wards 5. bipartisan 6. nominate 7. Liberals 8. resign CHAPTER 5 Section 1 Reading Comprehension 3 1. Answers for rankings will vary. Historical basis: The two-party system is rooted in the beginnings of the U.S., when the ratification of the Constitution gave rise to the first two parties. Tradition: Most Americans accept the idea of a two-party system simply because there has always been one. Electoral system: Since only one winner per office comes out of each election, voters have only two viable choices—the candidate of the party holding office or the candidate with the best chance of replacing the current officeholder. Voters tend to think of a vote for a minor party candidate as a wasted vote. Republicans and Democrats work together in a bipartisan way to write election laws to make...
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...that the person in office has it wrong and that they could do a better job. Though few choose to actively participate in the political process by educating themselves on the candidates, topics, voting, or expressing their thoughts to the elected officials by means of correspondence. “Political Socialization is the process by which an individual acquires values, beliefs and opinions about politics.” (Dautrich and Yalof 272) This is an ongoing process that for many people grows and broadens with age and education. That is to say that as we gain knowledge through formal education and wisdom through life experiences the concepts of what we hold as important change. We then excise our expressed views by use of the political process. This can be accomplished by way of donating our time or money to a particular cause or candidate, petitioning for or against causes, or voting either for a Political Party (known as along Party Lines),or the candidates that best represent our views, or for referendums at the local, state or even national level. I have been told many times by people that they do not vote because they do not like, favor, or feel any of the candidates express their views or beliefs. Jarod Kintz summed up this view point by saying “Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil. Next time, go all out and write in Lucifer on the ballot. ”...
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...Initially, as proposed by Bernie Sanders, Senator of Vermont, congress can implement a law that requires the Tuesday given towards voting to be a paid holiday for workers across the country. This proposal makes sense, considering that Federal workers already get that Tuesday off of work while all the other voters who are “too busy” do not. However, some people argue that this paid holiday will only harm business, and that it would be better to just have employers arrange flexible hours during the day for an employee to cast their vote instead of taking the entire day off with paid leave. Likewise, the government can just make a law that gets eligible voters vote, similar to the way the government does in Australia. This would be a radical change, however, and may not go well with many Americans. Another possible solution, to modernize voting, would be an online registration system. With the internet being increasingly more popular, it is important for the political process to modernize as well. Within the internet, advertisements should be made that encourage voting. Also, colleges should hang up non-biased political news on a bulletin at the end of each week for any interested students, so that those who do not follow candidates or political gossip can still understand what is...
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...participation. We will look at popular social media sites including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, and explore how their evolution is affecting political participation. Using the historical examples of Arab Spring, the Hong Kong protest of 2014, the Quebec student strikes of 2012, and the recent Canadian Federal Election, we will highlight the importance of social media and its uses to influence and encourage political participation during each event. Evolution of social media since 2000 The expansion of the Internet during the 21st century, as well as the development and spread of mobile phone technology, has enabled and promoted the unprecedented growth of social media, generally considered to be any web-based or mobile communications technology that allows the creation and exchange of user-generated content (Kaplan, 2010).In this project, we will focus on the social medias that were most commonly used in political movements, such as Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. “The Internet plays an increasingly large role in shaping...
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...day for settlement) 6+31+30+5 = 72 Half year = 22 Feb to 22 Aug = 6+31+30+31+30+31+22 = 181 Interest split = £800 x 72/181 = £318.23 Total paid = £20,800 + £318.23 = £21,118.23 3 (a) Ordinary shares: (i) the ordinary shareholders can sell their shares, or transfer without restriction. (ii) ordinary shareholders can share in the profit of the company--Dividends payable if company profits permit (iii) shareholders can be invited to attend all meeting (iv) ordinary shares have no fixed value — market value instead (v) shareholders have Full voting rights (b) Preference shares: (i) dividend on a preference share is normally fixed (ii) Dividends paid earlier that ordinary dividend (iii) on liquidation , the preference shareholders will receive only the nominal value of what they had contributed. (iv) No opportunity for dividend growth unless ‘participating’ (v) preference shares usually have no voting rights. 4. Theoretical...
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