The United States of America are among the lowest amount of voter participation. Some people think the answer is compulsory voting, but is that the right idea? No, Americans should not be required to vote because it goes against our rights and is time consuming, it decreases voter satisfaction, and it increases the amount of uninformed voters. Compulsory voting may be the answer to other countries problems, but not the US.
Americans should not be required to vote because it goes against our rights and it is time consuming. Making people vote is ruining our already weak name of the "Land of the Free". We have many laws, regulations, and rules, the last thing we need is for our people to lose even more of their freedom. We have our right to vote, and it is our choice, as soon as it becomes an obligation it is no longer a right, and restrains us. Not only do we lose our rights, we lose our time. Compulsory voting would make many people have to make their already busy schedules even busier. Young adults, aged around 18-20 would need time off from school, and older people would need time off work. This would also create the problem of too many people coming at once. There would have to be more days for voting, mail in ballots, and/or more places for voting. People who have young children or elders to take care of may not have time to go and vote, which would get them punished.(Doc A) Punishments would also take a lot of time. People would have to analyze them case-by-case or punish everyone, and risk having unjust punishments. This would either create angry citizens or a huge loss of time. Compulsory voting decreases voter satisfaction, which would ruin voting for America. …show more content…
The punishments would create angry citizens, and make people annoyed if they have to look over the punishments. Countries that have compulsory voting have a low voter satisfaction rate. Italy has public punishments, compulsory voting, and a very low voter satisfaction rate. The US has low voter turnout, but very high voter satisfaction. (Doc D) The only way to enforce compulsory voting is to have punishments that are worse than a small fine, which causes too many problems, and lowers satisfaction. People would have the trouble of picking what age people could stop voting, or whether it is until death, this would make it unfair to some people no matter what. (Doc A) If people at a certain age can stop, then people would get angry that other people don't have to vote, and if it is until death, people may have trouble getting to vote,which would create very low satisfaction. Compulsory voting also increases the amount of uninformed voters. This makes it useless for some people to vote, because they don't care about the election, which ruins it for other people. Young people, from ages 18 to 29, currently don't vote as much as older people, and compulsory voting isn't going to increase the amount of people who care about the election. (Doc B) This would lead to many people with blank ballots, like in Peru, where there is compulsory voting. (Doc E) In Peru, a lot of people don't care about the election, so 13% of people turn in blank ballots, so they won't get punished, but they won't have to vote. This shows that it
Americans should not be required to vote because it goes against our rights and it is time consuming. Making people vote is ruining our already weak name of the "Land of the Free". We have many laws, regulations, and rules, the last thing we need is for our people to lose even more of their freedom. We have our right to vote, and it is our choice, as soon as it becomes an obligation it is no longer a right, and restrains us. Not only do we lose our rights, we lose our time. Compulsory voting would make many people have to make their already busy schedules even busier. Young adults, aged around 18-20 would need time off from school, and older people would need time off work. This would also create the problem of too many people coming at once. There would have to be more days for voting, mail in ballots, and/or more places for voting. People who have young children or elders to take care of may not have time to go and vote, which would get them punished.(Doc A) Punishments would also take a lot of time. People would have to analyze them case-by-case or punish everyone, and risk having unjust punishments. This would either create angry citizens or a huge loss of time. Compulsory voting decreases voter satisfaction, which would ruin voting for America. …show more content…
The punishments would create angry citizens, and make people annoyed if they have to look over the punishments. Countries that have compulsory voting have a low voter satisfaction rate. Italy has public punishments, compulsory voting, and a very low voter satisfaction rate. The US has low voter turnout, but very high voter satisfaction. (Doc D) The only way to enforce compulsory voting is to have punishments that are worse than a small fine, which causes too many problems, and lowers satisfaction. People would have the trouble of picking what age people could stop voting, or whether it is until death, this would make it unfair to some people no matter what. (Doc A) If people at a certain age can stop, then people would get angry that other people don't have to vote, and if it is until death, people may have trouble getting to vote,which would create very low satisfaction. Compulsory voting also increases the amount of uninformed voters. This makes it useless for some people to vote, because they don't care about the election, which ruins it for other people. Young people, from ages 18 to 29, currently don't vote as much as older people, and compulsory voting isn't going to increase the amount of people who care about the election. (Doc B) This would lead to many people with blank ballots, like in Peru, where there is compulsory voting. (Doc E) In Peru, a lot of people don't care about the election, so 13% of people turn in blank ballots, so they won't get punished, but they won't have to vote. This shows that it