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Essay #85 <br />regarciless of their skin color. As a resuli:, the initiatives t�ken by President Kennedy and <br />completed by President Johnson not only ended the oppression of colared people, l�ut alsa rnade <br />the U.S, a better place to live zn £ar minorities for generations to come. <br />Voting is a powerful privilege that influences initiatives, propositions, and laws. For <br />i:nstance, before same-sex marriage became a�ederal law, Minnesota was one of the states <br />allowing this pz��ctice. It was legalized because about �'if'ty three percent of the state's voters <br />decided this outcome in 2012, This referendum shows that popular vating is powerful in making <br />a difference in the rules gov�rning people, Thus, in order for state and federal governments to <br />o�erate the way most people want, we must all vote, but this is not happening. ' <br />The main reason why people do �ot vota is because they think that their votes do not <br />couni. This belief stems from the fact that in the U,S. states and federal governments are run by <br />an elected majority pazty other than the people themselves. Thus, the vaies of the citizen.s are <br />only counted for popularity to see what most of thezn believe in. For exannple, citizens do not <br />directly vote a president into ofiice. Only the vates of the Electoral Collage couzit toward this <br />goal. Since the slectoral votes do not l�ave to �gree with the popular vote, many people think that <br />voting is useless. Ta change this and promote voting, we should allow citizens to fu11y control <br />tl�e outcome oi elections, thereby eliminating the electoral votes. This means that the c�tizens and <br />government ofitcials would have equal voting power. By doing this, the apinions of everyos�e <br />would be accounted toward making i'inal decisions. Voting would a�so become more of an <br />obligation for the people because their votes could become the deciding factor in an election, <br />Tn addition, voting can be promoted by having s�,me-day voter registration in every state. <br />Same-day voter ragistration mean that you can register to vote on the same day voting occurs, <br />