Monday, December 6, 2010

1.Provide a paragraph on an important issue of your choice from Section 1:
Extending Suffrage: The five Stages
In 1800 the first extending voting began. There was no longer a religion test you had to take to become a voter. The Civil War was also one of the stages along with the 19th Amendment that prohibited the denial of the right to vote because of ones gender. The fourth stage was extending Africa Americans the right to vote and the last and final stage of the Suffrage movement was 26th Amendment allowing 18 year olds to vote.
2.  Provide a paragraph on an important issue of your choice from Section 2:
Residence
In order to vote you must be a legal resident of the US. If you want to cast your vote you need to be a resident because getting to know the canidates before voting and being considered "safe" in our country are very important things. The amount of time to become a resident has changed over the years. It was 90 days, 60 days and now it is no longer than 30 days.
3.  Provide a paragraph on an important issue of your choice from Section 3:
Early Civil Rights Legislation
To use the 15th amendment Congress in 1957 passed the Civil Rights Act made by the US Commission. The commission duties include inquiring into claims of voter discrimination. They report these finding to congress. The act also allowed the Attorney General to do the duties he/she is allowed to do.

4.  Provide a paragraph on an important issue of your choice from Section 4:
Why People Do Not Vote
The answer should not have anything to do with how long voting takes. Well, the truth is a large percentage of the people who don't vote cannot vote. That means the people a either resident aliens, sick on the day of elections or simply cannot get to a voting station.Some people are also in mental health care facilities, prisons are jails, and some people do not vote because their religion prohibits them to do so. The fact is that just because we are told that millions of people didn't vote doesn't mean that they just simply decided not to go vote. Of course there are the seldom few who choose not to vote because they just don't feel like it, but the majority of people who can vote will.
5. Explain voter apathy and what can be done to help it:
In politics voter apathy is a term used to describe a perceived apathy (lack of caring) among voters in an election.Voter apathy is often cited as a cause of low turnout among eligible voters. Voters who just don't care can't necessarily be helped. Voters who choose not to vote might be helping us more if they do not vote if they have not done there homework. If a voter is unaware of who is running or why they would vote for that person they should not be voting because they might not have a clear knowledge of all the running candidates.
6. Explain the qualifications for registering to vote
  • You must be a US citizen, and a resident of your state and of  18 years old on or before election day.
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