On Monday, April
28, 2014, my classmate Alexander Bainter published an article which
discusses about the participation of the residents in the government voting and
it is kind of related to my previous blog. Therefore, I choose his
article to leave a comment.
First of all, I agree with what he said.
From the data he provided, with only 38% of the registered Texan voters showing
up to vote in the 2010 Gubernatorial election and 58% of them showing up in the
2012 presidential election, Texas deserves a 45th ranking for voter
turnout among all the other states. It is really bad for Texas because people
living in it do not care much about the state government. Although people are
forced to study 6 credit hours of government in the college, it seems like
people may not learn the importance of government deeply from the courses, and
I think that is also the reason why people do not want to get involved into
those "annoying" elections as people do not know how important they are and are not
willing to spend some extra time on those “unimportant” voting.
To conclude, I think we need to improve
our civic consciousness in order to make Texas have a better ranking in the voter turnout and a better state.
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