Examples of voting systems in the following topics:
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- Common voting systems are majority rule, proportional representation, or plurality voting with a number of criteria for the winner.
- A voting system contains rules for valid voting, and how votes are counted and aggregated to yield a final result.
- Common voting systems are majority rule, proportional representation, or plurality voting with a number of variations and methods such as first-past-the-post or preferential voting.
- The plurality voting system is a single-winner voting system often used to elect executive officers or to elect members of a legislative assembly that is based on single-member constituencies .
- Compare and contrast the voting systems of majority rule, proportional representation and plurality voting
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- A ballot is a device used to cast votes in an election, and may be a piece of paper or a small ball used in secret voting.
- The ballot box is also designed to prevent anyone from accessing the votes cast until the close of the voting period .
- Depending on the type of voting system used in the election, different ballots may be used.
- In party-list systems, lists may be open or closed.
- This system is one means of achieving the goal of political privacy.
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- Electoral systems are the detailed constitutional arrangements and voting laws that convert the vote into a political decision.
- The first step in determining the results of an election is to tally the votes, for which various vote counting systems and ballot types are used.
- In a proportional electoral system, a political party receives a percentage of seats in a governmental body in proportion to the number of votes it receives.
- In a majoritarian system, one party receives all of the seats in question if it receives the majority of votes.
- This electoral system is neither strictly majoritarian nor proportional; state delegates are not allocated to candidates in proportion to the votes they receive, but neither is winning the popular vote sufficient to ensure a candidate's election.
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- Compulsory voting is a system by which electors are obliged to vote in elections or attend a polling place on voting day.
- Compulsory voting ensures a large voter turnout.
- Victorious political leaders of compulsory systems may claim a higher degree of political legitimacy than those of non-compulsory systems with lower voter turnout.
- Red: Compulsory voting, enforced.
- Pink: Compulsory voting, not enforced.
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- Independently, income has some effect on whether or not people vote.
- The more educated a person is, the more likely he or she is to vote.
- Education has the strongest impact on participation, as it provides people with background knowledge as to how the political system works and how the action of voting is connected with the realities of their lives.
- This is a figure illustrating the different rates of voting in the 2008 U.S.
- The higher income, the more likely a person is to vote.
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- Each state is awarded the same number of electoral votes as the number of its Representatives, plus two votes to match its Senatorial count.
- They may vote for another candidate or not vote at all.
- They argue that the two party system has provided stability through its ability to change during times of rapid political and cultural change.
- In the presidential general election, the winner is determined based on who receives the greatest number of votes in the Electoral College system.
- Assess the compatibility of the Electoral College system with the nation's federalist and democratic commitments
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- On average, Latino citizens continue to vote at significantly lower rates than non-Latino white voters.
- There are many potential approaches that can be taken to explain variations in voting rates.
- Others examine the question of the rationality of voting: does voting serve the self-interest of any given individual, and what are the interests or issues that might change someone's voting patterns?
- As such, people may live for many years in the US without being able to vote.
- Additionally, the weaker electoral institutions in the US, including more decentralized election processes and a weaker party system, mean that there are few institutions working to actively incorporate newly naturalized citizens or second generation citizens into the voting process.
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- Attorney General to join in lawsuits against state governments which operated segregated school systems.
- The Voting Rights Act outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African-Americans.
- The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of national legislation in the United States that prohibits discrimination in voting.
- These enforcement provisions applied to states and political subdivisions (mostly in the South) that had used a "device" to limit voting and in which less than 50 percent of the population was registered to vote in 1964.
- Compare and contrast the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act
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- A high turnout is generally seen as evidence of the legitimacy of the current system.
- When asked why they do not vote, many people report that they have too little free time.
- Making voting compulsory has a direct and dramatic effect on turnout.
- Ease of voting is a factor in rates of turnout.
- This suppression can be in the form of unfair tests or requirements to vote.
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- Certain factors like age, gender, race, and religion help describe why people vote and who is more likely to vote.
- This rise in youth vote is partly a result of voter registration and mobilization efforts by groups like Rock the Vote.
- Participation and voting differs among members of racial and ethnic groups .
- In 2008, 48 percent of Asian Americans turned out to vote.
- Much of the Christian right's power within the American political system is attributed to their extraordinary turnout rate at the polls.