Voting

• Reasons why Some people are more likely to vote than others is wealth, education, living in a state with AVR or if they are unhappy with the current executive
• AVR stands for Automatic voter registration
• Wealth is a factor to a persons likeliness to vote because wealthier people are usually better connected to political figures
• People (in 2020) whose income was $100,000 to $149,999, 81% of them voted. While people whose income was $30,000 - $39,999, 64% voted.
• AVR registers anyone over 18 to vote In that state
• AVR makes it easier to vote since you don’t have to register, and if you move state there won’t be any trouble with the system accidentally duplicating votes
• If the whole US was to be registered with AVR, 15 million Americans would be registered to vote
• Oregon was the first state to introduce AVR, 272,000 people were registered to vote
• People are more likely to vote if they feel represented
• In the US senate and the House of Representatives and the executive branch there is a much improved representation of ethnic minorities
• Kamala Harris was voted in as the first female Vice President of the United States in 2020
• I’m the House of Representatives, 13% are black Americans, which is equal to their share of people in the populations
• Some US citizens are less likely to vote if they feel under represented, the voter ID laws (states with strict voter ID laws), Apathetic voters or they are immigrants
• 11% of citizens lack a voter ID
• The voter ID laws in states are strict to prevent fraud (double voting)
• Apathetic voters are people who do not vote unless it’s an election year
• The turnout for midterm elections are lower compared to presidential election years, because people believe there is more at stake when voting for a president and are more apathetic towards voting for senate and members of the House
• 66.3% of eligible citizens voted in the 2020 presidential election compared with 46.8% in the 2022 midterms