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Newon Dennis Basheer Lewis Rick Kinard Yadi Angel

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Rick Kinard

Yadi Angeles The national question going around in people’s minds this time of year is “how to get more people to vote?” Looking closely at reasons why they don’t vote, it is concluded that many people don’t vote because they are parents and can’t leave their children at home alone. The best way to increase voter turnout is by having a free daycare at all voting facilities. “I don’t vote because there’s no time. With my children getting a day out of school, I need to stay at home and take care of them.” (Lucy) This is what many parents are saying. They ask themselves the sense in letting the kids out of school that day instead of letting the adults out from work. This only brings them more stress, and therefore makes it impossible to go vote when they’re juggling two or three kids at once. By adding a day care center to each voting facility, each parent won’t have much of an excuse to not vote. Taking care of their children will also give them time alone to think about the candidates and what they want to choose. Without a bored child distracting and bothering them, parents will be in a more peaceful mood, and won’t have to worry over their child home alone. This gives them a stress free state of mind, therefore making it easier for the parent to think clearly about their choices for government. Children hate going to voting places. All they do for hours is stand with their parents doing absolutely nothing. Younger children get restless faster, and bother their parents to no end. Tammy Takahashi, who has had many published work on children says, “Our children, growing up in a complex, hyper-stimulating world, are conditioned to expect this. And when it’s not there, it creates anxiety. Translation, they get bored.” So what can be done to both avoid this and to leave the parent alone? Giving the children a day care can give children something to do and something to look forward to. Effective ways of spending time with them could even be to teach them about the government and voting process in a creative, fun and different way each year. This could get parents riled up for voting, as it teaches their children something new and gets them engaged in politics at a young age. Therefore, adding a day care center can kill two birds with one stone. More parents will come and vote with their children, and America will have a whole new generation better educated in voting at a young age.

Newon Dennis Rebuttal: Children. The pride and joy of many in parenthood. But certainly, there are certain places that children shouldn’t be in. Such as … the voting polls. Even if there was to be a designated area for the children to wait. It never not possible for children to slip away from those areas to find their parents. Especially those children who need special attention or clingy to there parents. Having a daycare in such a place as the voting polls would only cause distraction to the voters, an unnecessary population count at the polls, and the dangers of having large machines near small children. Daycares are used for one thing and one thing only, a babysitter that doesn’t have to come in your home. Where your child(ren) can interact with other children their age and learn some helpfully things for growing up. But the main thing children do at daycares are play and run around. So having one at a voting poll isn’t the best thing to exactly have, especially an over-crowed one. An in the event that the people in charge of the polls are hired a negligent sitter, it possible that your child could be treated poorly with in the Voting Poll Daycare. And it’s never short of the possibly that children are crafty creature and could find ways to sneak out the daycare and distract other voters while running around, playing, or searching for their parents. Which would be very dangerous if they kidnapped or got hurt. Obviously, having a daycare in would only cause more distraction and commotion that some voters would just go home with the vote. Having long lines and crowds full of adults at the voting polls is a high population. So increasing that population with unnecessary body count would just cause bigger commotion. More people to be counted for and children to be counted while in the daycare services. Plus the fact that some parents would need to go in and out of line because their checking up on their children. That could cause a outburst from certain people and could possibly cause an violent problem. Like a fight or a very heated argument. And with the huge population many children could be separated from their parents or get pulled away from their parents. With even being noticed, which would be a much more danger when you child goes missing from the heavily populated area. Children. The pride and joy for many in parenthood. But certainly, there are certain places that children shouldn’t be in. Such as the voting polls. They can be distracting, hut, kidnapped, or get missing. It’s bad enough parents have to get out and vote, but what would be worst if you came to vote and your child got lost, or hurt, or became to distracting to vote. Daycares in the in voting polls are the worst ideas and really shouldn’t be put anyway near a voting poll.