Voter Turnout Reasons

Voter turnout is on the decline, the book gives a few reasons why, but I feel the one of the more significant reasons is that people aren’t educated in politics and its inner workings. They really aren’t making it easy to trust them in my opinion, but for things to change people have to vote. The plan I have in mind targets people that don’t know enough to make educated votes for candidates that suit their points of view and needs. This is not any specific gender or race, but level of knowledge of politics.

The first part of this plan is education. Many people don’t really see being involved in politics as being essential for their survival; I think otherwise. I took economics and government in college and I felt that the class was too short

to fully grasp things that we needed to know. I would change the schooling system so that instead of one semester of each, I would still have one semester of economics but I would make government take two semesters, and have it set up similar to how we have History 15A and 15B, and they would have to be taken back to back during senior year, when most students become eligible to vote.
Next, I would have a fee that must be paid if someone does not vote, one reason the book gave that people don’t vote is that its costless not to vote. The fee would not be some over the top amount of money, but an amount that would be annoying to lose for the simple act of not voting. This fee would be around $100. The total amount of money collected from people that did not vote would be used by the states for things like rebuilding and maintaining roads.
As for electoral procedure, I would have all votes be digital, this would make it easier for people to vote, the interface for the system would have to be user friendly so that it is easier for people who may not know much about voting. The easier and faster it is for people to vote, the more people will be willing to vote. There would also have to be a department dedicated to the security of the system in place so that it is safe from outside hacking. In addition, there won’t be one server for the system, each state will be responsible for their own as to increase security.