Argumentative Essay On Right To Vote

Within the United States, the right to vote is held with high regaurd. This being said, the delivery of this right is not always carried out well, and can be vastly improved. The cost of the voting procedures can be lowered, the accesibility to voting can be increased, and the familiarity can be increased as well.

Voting can be quite costly to a state, but these costs are well justified, as they allow citizens to carry out a Constitutional right. However, justification of the cost does not mean there could not be room for improvement, as well as improving the means of which this is spent. The current paper ballot system needs to be printed out and changed every time a new election is held, and then needs to be tranfered to all voting stations. However, EVMs (electronic voting machines) need only be transfered once, and can be changed without the costly need of a new printing. The cost of security updates may be a concern, but the concern of secure paper voting would inflict an equally costly expence, having to pay for secure transfer.

Paper ballots must be printed out to include all languages for the intended section, and provide no variability within their use. As seen in Queens, a neighborhood in a city, as many as 138 different languages are spoken in the United States, but only 6 languages were printed. But accesibility is not only halted by language, but by the method of entry as well. An EVM may be used by those not able to read, such as visual imparment, or those unable to make presice marks with a pen, such as Parkinsons Disease. This can be solved by simple text to speech options, and the use of large