Florida Voting Case Study

Armed with sworn affidavits to contest the votes counted in the election, as well as the willingness of individuals to testify in court, Carter and his lawyer Charles Kirbo filed petitions for a recount as well as a request for the Quitman County Democratic Executive Committee to throw out the entire ballot box. At first, there was little media coverage concerning these accusations made by Carter and his team, although eventually the papers began to catch up and broadcast the story statewide. Carter’s request the ballot box to be thrown out was rejected by the Quitman County DEC, chaired by Joe Hurst himself, and who all refused to hear any of the evidence Carter had come prepared with. However, Judge Crow, who presided over their request for a recount, ruled that the ballot box be thrown out after a recount found there to be 431 votes in the box, as well as a missing voter list and stubs. The throwing out of the voting results from the Georgetown precinct meant that Carter had won the election.

The reasoning for the appointment of a special presidential electoral commission in 1877 is that Humdrum Hayes was running against Samuel J. Tilden. Tilden got 184 electoral votes when he needed 185. He had also polled 247,448 more popular votes than Hayes. Both parties set off to send “visiting statesmen” to the three still-contested states known as Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina. As weeks drifted by the constitution specifies that the electoral returns from the states would be sent to congress, and in the House and Senate they will be opened. If it were to be counted by the president of the Senate, the Republicans would be selected. If it were to be counted by the Speaker if the House, the democratic side would be chosen. The agreement

The equal protection clause of the Constitution provided George W. Bush with a historical argument that surprisingly fit his case. Not every Floridians ballot was provided with the same protections. There was no statewide vote recount procedure, every county had their own provisions.Two voters could have marked their ballots in an identical manner, but the ballot in one county would be counted while the ballot in a different county would be rejected, due to the conflicting manual recount

According to this article the liberals are taking advantage of the scheming going on with the republicans in order to make a map that is more favorable toward the democrats. Judge Terry Lewis is blind to the fact that not everything is fair, especially since he is ruling for a fair district map, but this one will not be good enough for the democrats until the conservative Florida legislature draws a map they approve

Research suggests that the Electoral College system should be amended because it poorly illustrates democracy, is outdated and

In Pennsylvania during the 2012 House election, democrats won 51% of the vote, yet only ended up with 5 seats...out of

A few cities — including San Francisco; Minneapolis; Cambridge, Mass.; and Portland, Me. — have used this method to count ballots, but none use it in statewide elections. In Maine, this type of voting will apply to races for Congress, governor and the State Legislature, but not to municipal offices or president. It is to go into effect starting with the primary races in June 2018.

They see that it is an unfair way of voting and that they are sometimes unable to vote for who they would rather

On the other hand, the Canadian electoral system has also been accused of being undemocratic and unrepresentative in many aspects. Although the Canadian single member plurality

The first reason is that this system gives more votes to cast in smaller states. The government

*Founding fathers left holes in voter qualifications, giving the states power to determine who could vote (George Washington went out fishing while these decisions were taking place)

The people of the loosing party on the state votes are not worth anything they are just given to the winner basically with the current electoral system. The system needs to be redesigned to

that this would take to long and tried to the the courts to declare that voting

Florida is a popular state when discussing political controversy. The media rushes to Florida during congressional and presidential elections due to its reputation as a conflicted state. Here we find the southern regions to be rather liberal and voting democratically, and on the other hand, we see the northern regions voting mostly conservatively. This creates controversy in the United States because Florida is a major determining factor of what kind of outcome we are going to get for a presidential election. This can be especially stressful for those running for office either presidentially or for the state specifically because they are unaware of their chances of gaining the states support and being elected into office.

The U.S Constitution gives the states considerable latitude in the way of conducting elections. The American citizens have many opportunities to vote. However, a turnout in American elections has dramatically decreased over the past several decades. In order to address this issue, majority of states have allowed absentee voting reforms. These convenient reforms are thought to increase the voter turnout in the elections, as well as to reduce administrative costs.