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Sam Sirochman Ms. Laufenberg American History C 10/28/10 (It won't let me indent) Many people like to complain about the government and how they run America, truth is many people don’t vote every year. Just a little over half of the registered American people vote, the exact number is 54% but that is ridiculous; considering the entire 100% of Americans love to complain about how their tax money is spent and how the nation is being run. Everyone has their bone to pick with the government every once in awhile. The fact of the matter is it is all your hands, if you don’t like the republican vote for the democrat and vice versa, Americans need to stop playing the victims and vote. Every year 141,223,013 people **__don’t__** vote, that is an outrageous number, there are probably many reasons as to why people don’t vote. We can only make it easier to vote to patch the final 46% of Americans who don’t vote. A suggestion many make is to open a whole week for voting or weekend voting; however that really won’t change much because it still doesn’t make it all that much more convenient. If they won’t take the 10 minutes to go vote, they certainly won’t take the time on a Saturday or Sunday, which is some of the most treasured time of week. The best solution might just be to send everyone a ballot in the mail, deliver it on October 26th ­and be back to collect it on November 1st and 2nd. If Americans would like to go and vote in person they still could, but it just seems as if America is getting lazier and lazier and this seems to be a good compromise. It could just go out with the mailmen and be scooped back up by the mailmen. Public schools would no longer have to have school cancelled, because of the voters doing it all from home. It would also eliminate any problem that there may still be with problems at the voting polls; such as intimidation to vote for certain political runners, identification issues, inability to work the machines, and not knowing where to vote. Now if you get a paper in the mail and all you have to do is fill it out and have it collected within the next week. Something that can be done to increase voter turnout in the future is to inform students in grade school and high school about the positives of politics and tell them that voting is an integral part of politics so they will all feel as if they should. Possibly make the students know that voting is a privilege and you should treat it as just that, go and vote because in other countries you cannot. Make them see what is right with America, raise a whole generation of kids whose morals are nationalism based; a whole generation who know that every vote counts. People believe want to believe that they are individuals, but when it comes down to voting they think they are only a percentage (not a very large one at that.) Really what it comes down to is that if you are proud of your nation, and take advantage of all the good things; you must vote and do your part to make it a better place. The country seems to have a deflated sense of nationalism, the only way to fix this is to vote and be proud of the direction your country is heading; really its all in America’s hands.

Sources: "A Guide for Voters with Disablitities in Tennessee." //National Disability Rights Network//. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Oct 2010. .

Kendrick, Carleton. "Why Don't Americans Vote?." //Family Education//. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Oct 2010. .