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Why People Don T Vote
Every citizen has the right to vote, yet so many people don’t vote, "with the turnout at just 64% for the 2008 presidential election, and voter turnout rates decreasing steadily in most established democracies." My parents just can't do it because they're too busy and sometimes they just don't want to vote. It would be fun to vote because of the freedom we have on voting for which president we want to have, but some people just don't think that way. As a consequence, voter turnouts during presidential elections has been traditionally low. There are a number of reasons why people may not vote such as a lack of understanding of politics, people being busier, a lack of trust in the government, laziness; which is disrespectful, and not caring or even contentment with how things are. But when people …show more content…
These people may feel that we are ungrateful what they have, and they would be right, because they would love the chance to have a say in the way their country runs and potentially improve their lives through it, while we don’t bother to vote but then moan if things don’t go the way that we want. This is another reason that we should have to vote otherwise, we shouldn’t have the right to complain. According to ideas.times.com, "If you don’t even try to influence policy in the ways that you can, you can’t then moan about how rubbish everything is. If you’ve done all that you can but it hasn’t worked, however, you and everyone else being critical of the government is perfectly reasonable because things are going wrong despite every citizen’s best efforts." We need to understand that many people in the world are fighting for the freedom to vote and we already had people who fought for that and won. Many don't even care about that and that's just

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