why is it important to vote?

Answer 1

It is important to vote if no other reason than to voice your opinion. I vote at every election and am proud of it. Every time someone starts to slam who ever is in office, I ask them if they voted. If they answer no, then I don't want to hear their opinion. Even if they are talking smack about someone I don't like.

If you don't go to the poles and place your vote then don't talk to me about what is wrong with the person in office.

Answer 2

It's not important. What's important to realize is that your vote will never make a difference in anything. So let's say you voted and things didn't turn out the way you wanted. You gained absolutely nothing from voting in the first place. It was simply a waste of time.

I no longer vote anymore. I don't care who's in office, or what the laws are. It makes no difference because if I did care the laws would be exactly the same. The point is you are a nobody, and you alone cannot change anything within the government. So voting is a complete waste of time.

Answer 3

Paradoxical, since voting could be important in a certain context and unimportant in another In some cases it counts, in other ,it does not. In some cases voting can produce significant change at the highest level of the state, in other cases it fructifies status quo of the undesireable type.Universal adult franchise is perhaps the most important part of democracy. Yet, the nature of democracy too is subject to change.It has a history.Sometimes it could change for the worse, as it happened in Germany in 1933.With mass democracy and growing numbers, the formal-technical part becomes more important rather than programmes, manifestoes and political discourse. I mean the the difference between a consumer and citizen gets blurred.Election strategies are replicating marketingstrategies and political parties have become corporatized.Even this may change for the better in case voting is the result of progressive mass democratic movements demanding change. All in all, there cannot be any unanimous consensus to your question.. One thing should be clear.By voting, the democratic format is retained and even re-enforced, which is better than a context or states of exception when the police is breathing down your neck or a military coup d'etat, tyranny and dictatorship.The unanswered part of your question is whether voting really counts? That should not be taken for granted in this age of technology.

Answer 4

I don't think you have a right to whine about how messed up the present government is if you haven't participated in the election...plus once in a while you actually get to vote for a great person, instead of just voting for the least of two evils..I've been voting since I was 18 and think it should be mandatory like it is in other countries-I think we would have a very different country if everyone voted, not just the people 50 and over...

Answer 5

Think of it this way: If I give you the choice of eating crap versus eating cheesecake, you'd opt for the cheesecake, right? But if you say, "Eh, I don't care, you decide," I'm gonna give you the crap and eat the cheesecake for myself.

In other words, if you don't decide what is best for you and yours, someone else will make the decision for you, and you'll be stuck with whatever that someone else leaves you.

Additionally, people have given their lives for others to have their voice be heard, and that's NOT just in the U.S. One of my students is from Liberia, and we had this discussion in class. He was utterly outraged that anyone in the U.S. would take such a right for granted. I don't know a damned thing about Liberian history, but the look in his face told me he'd experienced a great deal of either death or lack of freedom because of voting rights in his country (really need to do some reading on Liberian history).

Answer 6

Just like taxes, a vote is an investment in your country

Answer 7

i havent voted in decades. show me a real candidate and i will vote.

oh, to answer your question: it is important to vote because over half the country doesnt.

Answer 8

The current and best reason is to lend your voice and opinion to lead our government in the best direction for the majority of our people.