The Right To Vote

The vote is the event by which a person is supporting a proposal either for a candidate or list of candidates, either secretly or by a public act. The importance of voting is its nature as a resourceto define the paths to be followed by a community, association, including small groups or even greater administrative areas, such as municipalities, provinces and the national government.The vote is an essential part of democratic systems. Thus, in modern democracies, universal suffrage is an important component of the vote, for which there are no formal exclusions for this act, withinthe legal boundaries demarcating the law of every nation. Many historians have emphasized that one of the mainstays of the democratic societies of the twentieth century has been the amplification ofthe number of individuals eligible to vote, with the progressive incorporation of younger subjects, women and other traditionally marginalized groups in many of their civic rights.



Also, votingis often seen as equal, that is, not recorded differences in the quantity or quality of the vote cast by each voter. In collegiate systems, however, emphasizes that equal to the number of votes, thechairman of the legislative body may issue a second vote to break a tie and set a path to a given end.



Secret status is one of the most important characteristics of the vote today. In thisway, they avoid the pressures that can arise from factors such as fear, political repression or peer pressure aspects.

Compulsory voting is perhaps one of the conditions that has experienced moredebate over the decades, since those who support this underlying situation that makes more efficient implementation of the universality of the vote. However, critics believe that, being compulsory votinglaw loses its capacity to become a duty, and subtracting its democratic.

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