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Elections

Discuss the following questions and comment on quotations.

“To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.”
― Aristophanes, The Knights

“A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

Do you believe in fair elections?

What is the procedure of elections in your country?

Do you vote? Are all people in your country allowed to vote?

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Russia now declares it does not recognize the Donetsk and Luhansk ______.

__________ haven’t decided who to ________yet.

Fewer than 30 percent of _______ in Indiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Utah bothered to cast ________.

He is now being talked of as the _______ for Virginia governor should he decide to run in 2017.

Also as predicted, young voters’ share of the _______ dropped: from 19 percent in 2012 to 13 percent this year.

Roughly 387,000 voters had cast early or _______ as of Jan. 24, according to the Florida secretary of state’s office.

ABC News _______ showed that 45 percent of Americans believed that the economy was the most important issue.

Though he was unsuccessful, it made him a household name and helped to launch him to the Presidency, in a _______ election victory in 1998.

The country gained independence from France in 1960 and would suffer from five military_____ in the first few decades that followed.

Democrats ran tactical _____ with tactical messaging this fall.

Historically, mid-term elections during a second _____ of any U.S. president have been unfavorable for his party.

The _______ system involves three distinct blocks of votes - politicians, unions and party members.

A voting system or electoral system is a method by which voters make a choice between options, often in an election or on a policy referendum.

Voting has been used as a feature of democracy since the 6th century BC, when democracy was introduced by the Athenian democracy. However, in Athenian democracy, voting was seen as the least democratic among methods used for selecting public officials, and was little used, because elections were believed to inherently favor the wealthy and well-known over average citizens. Viewed as more democratic were assemblies open to all citizens, and selection by lot (known as sortition), as well as rotation of office. One of the earliest recorded elections in Athens was a plurality vote that it was undesirable to "win": in the process called ostracism, voters chose the citizen they most wanted to exile for ten years. Most elections in the early history of democracy were held using plurality voting or some variant, but as an exception, the state of Venice in the 13th century adopted the system we now know as approval voting to elect their Great Council.

There are three basic "families" of voting systems: plurality/majority, proportional representation, and semiproportional. All the voting systems within a particular family tend to produce the same kind of political results and tend to resemble each other in terms of their general political advantages and disadvantages.

Plurality/majority systems. These are the winner-take-all systems that are usually used in the United States. They include the common plurality systems like the single-member district plurality vote and at large voting, and less common majority systems like the two-round runoff and the instant run-off.

Proportional representation systems. These voting systems are used by most other advanced Western democracies and are designed to ensure that parties are represented proportionally in the legislature. They include party list systems, mixed-member proportional, and the single transferable vote.

Semiproportional systems. Though relative rare worldwide, these systems have garnered some interest in the United State. They tend to produce more proportional results than plurality/majority systems, but less proportional results than fully proportional systems. They include cumulative voting and limited voting.

Women to vote

Nowadays everyone has a right to vote, but was it always the same?
Should both men and women vote?

Have you ever heard the word “suffragette”?
The word ‘ suffrage ’ means having the right to vote in political elections. The Suffragettes campaigned for women to have this right.

In Britain the organisation was led by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia at the beginning of the twentieth century.

After peaceful methods of campaigning had failed to bring about any result, the movement became more violent. Women householders over the age of thirty finally gained the vote in 1918.

Watch the video about the movement of suffragettes and answer the following questions:

When did the Suffragists try to get the vote?

Who started the Suffragettes in 1903?

What did the women do in prison?

What was the name of the act that allowed the police to let women out of prison when they were near death?

What happened in June 1913?

Did women do the men’s jobs during the period of World War I?

When were the women after 30 given the right to vote? Over 21 years old?

When were the women over 21 years old given the right to vote?

Who became Prime Minister in 1979?

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