Elections are important and everyone has a right to vote. However there have been practices that have been attempting to stop people from voting such as qualifications on race, property ownership, religion, and so forth (pg 493). Elections now have open up the voting pool to any American citizen with minor acceptations. Before many qualifications were required to vote in elections and as year gone by, people have fought courageously for right of representation in elections. Elections have helped people fight for their right, to go against the repressive rule that only adult white males with property were able to vote. “ The further electoral rights are extended, the greater is the need for extending them”(pg 493 Alexis de Tocqueville). This quote is right about electoral vote, that only more people are open to voting due to want of representation during elections. American elections might have open the voting pools but there are still tactics used today in order to prevent American citizens from
Elections are important and everyone has a right to vote. However there have been practices that have been attempting to stop people from voting such as qualifications on race, property ownership, religion, and so forth (pg 493). Elections now have open up the voting pool to any American citizen with minor acceptations. Before many qualifications were required to vote in elections and as year gone by, people have fought courageously for right of representation in elections. Elections have helped people fight for their right, to go against the repressive rule that only adult white males with property were able to vote. “ The further electoral rights are extended, the greater is the need for extending them”(pg 493 Alexis de Tocqueville). This quote is right about electoral vote, that only more people are open to voting due to want of representation during elections. American elections might have open the voting pools but there are still tactics used today in order to prevent American citizens from