Voting During the 2000 Elections Term Paper

Ethnic groups such as Black people and Hispanics, and also women, had to fight for their right to vote. The many fighters who suffered and died during these struggles should be honored by using the rights that they won. It is not a right that should be taken for granted.

The news is filled with reports about countries where the right to vote is almost mythical. Women are oppressed, ethnic groups are executed for reasons not better than that they dare to exist, and the countries are ruled by tyranny rather than democracy. Voting in the United States can then be used as an example of the power of democracy.Voting is a very important action in any democratic country. Citizens should exercise it as a privilege, a right, and also a responsibility and an example to those without democracy.

Sources

Florida Atlantic University (2004). Just Vote. Dept of Political Science. http://wise.fau.edu/~rpwatson/Just_Vote/just_vote_002.htm

Historica Foundation. (2007). Voting. http://www.histori.ca/voices/page.do?pageID=420

Insure Democracy. (2007) Why Vote?

http://www.insuredemocracy.com/vote.htm

Woolley, Simon (2004, Feb 23). Why Vote? Operation Black Vote. http://www.obv.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=89&Itemid=112.....