Voter Turnout Issues

As executive director responsible for dealing with voter turnout it has become my solemn duty to address this issue and to come up with ways which I can greatly improve the outcome. I started out by first debating about why the turnout rate is so low, and have come to the realization that the problem is rooted in both the political parties and the citizens. Citizen's attitudes have always played a large roll in the turnout rate, as well as the attitudes amongst the party platforms, thus having a negative effect on voter turnout over time. However, I have found that there are several ways which reforms may improve voter turnout, which include: a national voting day that is pre-set and agreed by the government, a mail-in voting form, and the most important, the rebirth of involvement between parties. I believe that the best way however, is to not necessarily to just focus on increasing the total number going to the polls, but to focus on why voting is so important, which can be said is because it is our solemn duty as citizens to vote.
When thinking about why voter turnout was so slow, it makes sense that it can only be blamed on two subjects, either the citizens, or with the government (more specifically the political parties). I believe however, that the blame is not solely based on just one of these groups, but that both share the responsibility. When looking back on the early nineteenth century, one can see the importance of political involvement. Granted corruption had plagued the polls, causing many areas of the country to produce false statistics on turnout in hopes to cover up for these scandals, but the practice of more involvement from the platforms was a novel idea. The cause for more involvement was that during this era political party organizations were much stronger as a party system, and more resolute about helping voter turnout. They would take time to help organize people and made sure that many paid a visit to the polls on election day. This... [continues]

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