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A Cure For America's Corruptible Voting System

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A Cure For America's Corruptible Voting System

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Secret Ballot is developed from the Australian Ballot

President Grover was the first president to be elected entirely on the secret ballot

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Outcome of 2012 Congressional Elections (Gerrymandering)

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Outcome of 2012 Congressional Elections (Gerrymandering)

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80,000 more votes statewide won by Democratics
13/18 seats won by Republicans

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Competitive: Four districts evenly splitting 64 voters
Sweetheart: 2 blue and 2 red districts splitting the same 64 voters
Packing: 3 blue and 1 red district from the same voters
Cracking: 3 red and 1 blue district where the same voters are being split

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It's now up to Congress to generalize solutions, to lower barriers to registration and voting.

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Voting is the lowest common denominator of democracy.

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A Cure for America's Corruptible Voting System

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A Cure for America's Corruptible Voting System

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End the secret ballot, because "we have reached a point, with the internet, in which transparency and accountability is more important than absolute secrecy."
Voters should receive a "receipt" so they can make sure that their vote was accounted for, and accounted for correctly.

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States should reduce obstacles to voting by exploring Sunday or holiday voting, 24 hour voting and coordinating Federal, state and local election days.

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Competitive = gridlock.

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Key Idea: "Trust but Verify"
Every other transaction with the government you get a receipt, except for the one that matters most.

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-Voters are not heard.
-Parties shift focus to winning.
-Power is held by party leadership.
-Legislators fear being primaried.

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-Participation by the voting age population remains very low.
- Being involved in self-government, encourages people to be more informed with government choices and decisions.
-Problems are citizens' decreasing sense of civic responsibilities and loss of faith in gov.
-Strength citizens' sense of civic duty
-The educational process must involve adults.

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process used to determine how many legislative seats each state gets, based on population, taken from census every ten years

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Voters have been losing faith in the government and have lost their civic duty.

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A Cure for America's Corruptible Voting System

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A Cure for America's Corruptible Voting System

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-America's voting system is seen as flawed compared to other nations
- Want

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A Cure for America's Corruptible Voting System 

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A Cure for America's Corruptible Voting System 

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After voting, a curious citizen

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Only 23% of Texan voters being legal voting age voted.

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The lecture was given by Professor Marnie Sullivan

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-Americans want freedom to vote but do not want to handle the responsibility to vote

-States should reduce obstacles to voting

-Start incentivizing children and adults to register to vote

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A Cure for America's Corruptible Voting System

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A Cure for America's Corruptible Voting System

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The system we use is originated from the Australian Ballot

President Grover Cleveland in 1892 was the first US president elected entirely by the secret ballot

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A Cure For America's Corruptible Voting System

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A Cure For America's Corruptible Voting System

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Secrecy keeps citizen groups from watching the vote counts, demanding verification slips.

Prior to secret ballot people were threatened based on who they voted for.

Secret ballot is developed from Australian ballot.

Most US states did not support this form of voting. (Pres. Grover Cleveland was 1st president elected on entirely secret ballot.

Wants to end secret ballot so that voters get a "receipt" of a corresponding number to check to see if vote was registered correctly.

It removes 'psychological blinder' so that more Americans will trust in the voting system.

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Four different variations of gerrymandering
Competitive, Sweetheart, packing, and cracking

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Voting is the lowest common denominator of democracy

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The article was written in Cambidge, Massachusetts. According to the article, politics is becoming just a "secular sport". Out of those registered to vote, only 20-some percent tend to do so. While registered voters increase, participation does not. In fact, it's declining.
When there is no self government, it breads a lack of knowledge and responsibility. So states should make it easier to vote.
Look to increase sense of civic duty and responsibility.
Education must involve both adults and children.
Play your part.