how can voting be made attractive for the youth? (Don't give impossible to target answers like changing the election procedure or getting the politicians to do something) what can a mere citizen do to build his group of like minded people who are concerned about their country and want to make a difference?
2006-09-30 18:20:58 · 15 answers · asked by semi-truth 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Youth of India!
2006-09-30 18:33:18 · update #1
the question is more directed towards the Indian youth!
2006-09-30 18:34:01 · update #2
Look how bad our government is now. THAT should be enough to make anybody come out and vote the bums OUT!
2006-09-30 18:23:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well my best advice to you, speaking from personal experience, is that you should get a hold of a politician in your area, and get that person to give a speech to high school seniors. Better yet, getting an elected official, and going to your local community college. The people at community colleges are the ones the system has failed, thus it makes sense that that's where you can insence a young crowd.
I live in CA, an area that is heavily populated with Indian youth.
A lot of people don't know how to register, or are too lazy, thinking that voting is going to take up a lot of their time. You can also go into classrooms and try and lobby government teachers to give extra credit for registering to vote or voting itself. It just has to be totally worth their time. It's hard when one person feels insignificant, not knowing that millions of people are doing the same instead of grouping together and overthrowing the elites. But I think extra-credit would be the best insentive for teens to vote. So if there is a way for you to pitch your idea, go for it.
2006-09-30 21:11:34 · answer #2 · answered by stelle d. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question may sound simple but the answer is not a easy one and we better accept the ground reality that youth and educated people merely participate in the current system because of several reasons.
It can be made attractive by counting each of the educated youth vote as 10 votes or more depending on his or her qualification. You can think of this is similar to reservation system we have in all other sectors. This will empower the youth and educated India to participate in the system. This will also encourage people like you and me to get into politics and make a difference. Please read more on this at India cannot be a developed country in our life time with current breed of politicians. If we think India is developed just by looking at the current progress in IT sector then it is a mistake. Visit any part of rural India to know real India. India is poor uneducated and it cannot be changed with current system. If we have to see a change in our life time we need a fundamental change in the system....please read more on this at http://blog.myspace.com/militarycoup
2006-10-01 02:12:02 · answer #3 · answered by bmk 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I mean maybe a public service campain... kind of like the "TRUTH" ones...
you could focus on issues close to the young people's heart... I would do it on money...
something like looking at the tuition stats... tuition has increased 40 percent in the past 6 years... costs haven't increased by that much, so why the change? maybe elected officals realized that kids don't vote, so why should they bother spending government funds on them....
so now those guys you didn't care to vote for... they didn't care to fund your school... so now do you care that you're making up the difference in funds with tuition costs?
vote, or get left out in the cold...
EDIT: THESE STATS ARE AMERICAN, SO I DON'T KNOW IF INDIA HAS THE SAME ISSUES...
2006-09-30 18:40:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
considering the past two presidential elections were stolen, there's no appeal to vote if you know your vote doesn't count. getting the youth of today to be interested in a corrupt government is like wanting to actually feed the pigeons food at santa monica pier.
2006-09-30 18:57:15 · answer #5 · answered by Jennifer B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they don't vote, conceivably those who are in power can draft them into war and send them to die. Or, cut educational funding and student loan programs, or, raise taxes to support the war effort or to be used in ways contrary to what the 'youth' feel is correct for them and the country. There are issues like global warming that affect us now. There is the immigration issue which affects every young person who is entitled to medical care and education, but those same dollars are going to provide education and free health care to illegals.
2006-09-30 18:31:31 · answer #6 · answered by commonsense 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No duty can be asked to be done, by making it attractive. A duty has to be done, at any cost, even in the face of unpleasantness and the pain of injury to his body and mind. The youth should be inculcated in the virtue of doing a duty and the honour in doing it in spite of the impediments in the performance of the said duty.
2006-10-03 19:11:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there are enough youth leaders,open debates of citizens forums with ministers and people in power,when there is more transparent functioning of govt,less of politics and corruption and young people take pride in their country/leaders it will generate more youth participation in elections
2006-10-01 01:03:08 · answer #8 · answered by jaggu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since the Supreme Court won't let our votes be counted -- when they don't like the possibility of who will win if all votes are counted -- then why should the young or anybody bother TO vote?
2006-09-30 18:25:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. "
bill vaughan
2006-09-30 18:31:50 · answer #10 · answered by one glove 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋