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• Women vs. Men

  • In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote and, today, women vote at similar rates to men.
  • There are a variety of theories that help to explain who votes.
  • Other approaches 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?
  • In spite of this long-term institutional barrier to voting, women today vote at similar rates to men.
  • Women also do not generally vote as a bloc, and instead tend to be as diverse in their voting patterns as men.

• Winning an Election: Majority, Plurality, and Proportional Representation

  • 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

• Attempts to Improve Voter Turnout

  • 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.
  • Ease of voting is a factor in rates of turnout.
  • Red: Compulsory voting, enforced.
  • Pink: Compulsory voting, not enforced.

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• Socioeconomic Factors

  • 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.
  • In comparison, only 39% of those without a high school diploma voted that year.
  • 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.

• Issue Voting

  • In contrast to party voting, issue voting is when voters base their election decisions on political issues.
  • Individuals vote for the candidate that best matches their own views.
  • Issue voting has become prominent in recent elections.
  • While issue voting has risen in recent years, many factors can complicate it.
  • Issue voting has affected the decisions Americans make at the voting booth.

• Policy Preferences

  • In some elections, voters are motivated to vote a certain way based on specific policy preferences, which is called issue voting.
  • In "issue voting," voters cast their vote based primarily on specific political issues .
  • According to the theory of issue voting, voters vote based on policy preferences; they compare the candidates' respective principles against their own in order to decide who to vote for.
  • Issue voting is often contrasted with party voting.
  • Differentiate between issue voting and party voting and the reason(s) a voter would opt for one or the other

• African Americans

  • There are different explanations for voting patterns.
  • Others examine the question of rationality in voting: does voting serve the self-interest of any given individual, and what are the interests or issues that might change someones voting patterns?
  • During the early Reconstruction period, Black residents voted in large numbers .
  • While the fifteenth amendment provided legal protection for voting rights based on race, during the Jim Crow era, politicians created new institutions to suppress the vote of Black residents.
  • This act removed a large institutional barrier to voting and helped to further protect voting rights.

• Latinos

  • On average, Latino citizens continue to vote at significantly lower rates than non-Latino white voters.
  • On average Latino citizens continue to vote at significantly lower rates that 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.

• Voting as Political Participation

  • Voting is the most quintessential form of political participation, although many eligible voters do not vote in elections.
  • Every citizen gets one vote that counts equally .
  • In order to participate in voting, citizens must be registered.
  • Still, many people do not vote regularly.
  • Social, cultural, and economic factors can keep people from voting, or sometimes barriers to voting are informal.