VOTE!

[margarets]

This cartoon is taking place on Halloween as three little kids take place in the tradition of trick-or-treating. The three children stand before a woman holding a tray of candy. There costumes consist of a ghost, witch, and electronic voting machine. The child wearing the electronic voting machine costume is saying “What’s so scary about me? Well, say you cast your vote for Obama. I might count it as a vote for McCain…or I might not count it at all- but what’s really scary is you’ll never know.”

This cartoon is referring to the many claims that the voting machines are either fixed for a certain candidate or may have errors and not even count your vote. Many Americans fear their vote doesn’t count and with these new machines they will never know if it was counted or not. In the last election many claimed the voting was “fixed” in favor of George Bush and this year it was no different. Now after Barack Obama was elected president many Americans feel the polls were fixed. The sad thing is with those voting machines you never will know what happened to your vote.

[priyap09]

Many people are worried about the corruption underlying the voting process. We would never know if the voting process is genuine or corrupted by the government officials. There is not enough proof to assert that the process is dishonest. However, there are other things that Americans should consider and think about such as the Electoral College itself. Electoral College shows that U.S. does not function on democracy rather it is a republic form of government. If the election was determined by the popular votes, then America would be a direct democracy. But there are flaws in this system. In 1876, 1888 and 2000 candidates have been appointed as Presidents by the Electoral College, even though they lost the popular votes. The popular votes, the votes of the people, instruct the electors from each state to cast their vote for the same candidate. However, the electors could choose to vote against the results of the popular votes, therefore, going against the interest of the people. This indicates that Electoral College does not always seem to present the interest of the nation or the people as a whole.

[Mr. Wells]

Decent work, Margaret. Remember that your first paragraph should analyze the cartoon and your second paragraph should create an argument in response to the topic of the cartoon. You do not do that here.

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