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Essay #31 as of 2015, about 55% ofi America's population does not trust fiheir governmenfi; thafi is mare than half the populafiion! So why is it that they do not vote for someone they do trust? That is �xactly what vofiing is for! In the U.S., people can �ote for fiheir own government, so people should believe fihat even if they did not vote for a given candidate, a lot o�f people did, and that is at least worfih samething. Voting represents all Americans and how they want the country to work. One solufiion to increase the voter turnout is to gefi kids mare involved in voting, so that they will wanf fio do ifi when they are ofder. F'or example, when I was in elementary school, we voted for fih� presid�nfi we thought should hold office. Ifi is true that fihe votes did not count in the larger election since we were under fihe age af � 8, bufi it did introduce us -- and it could introduce other kids -- to the idea of vofiing. I thought it was fun, and so did others in my class. I especially liked when they called out the winner. It ended up being the person i voted for! Schools, whether elementary-leve(, middle, ar high schoals coufd vote, both for fun and fio learn about it, every election day. That way everyone under 18 would get used to voting and would be more fikely to da it when they get ofd enough. I know'#hat because of my experience in elemenfary school, I sure will! � One other way to get peopie to vote is to make Election Day a federal hofiday. That way, less people would haue to wark fihat day, increasing the time people have available to vote. Bernie Sanders, a democrat who is currently in the 2016 presidential race, has introduced a propasal that would amend the U.S. code fo include Federal Elec�ion Day. It would be the Tuesday after #he first Monday in Navember in each