Voting seems to be boring for United States citizens, especially young people. If we add all the voting together, we may vote as much as other countries. This does not sound interested at all, and voting is like second job.
There are many reasons that make voters not keen on voting. They are disconnected or uninformed about the campaign or presidential candidates; They do not have sense of efficacy; Or voting method does not change. On the contrary, they can spend hours on shopping. You can see that they lines up waiting to buy iPhone or Starbuck coffee; Or they can wait for celebrities for hours to getting their signatures or taking pictures with them even though it’s is sunny or rainy; but we are sure that lining up voting is not the fun activity for them. Do you think our government should change voting to attract voters?
We can make voting exciting to attract voters. For example, we can make Obama’s slogan “Tell your mama. Vote for Obama!” cellphone’s ringtone; Or we can make voting cool like American Idol show. So we can vote online or text for our favorite one. They can raised money by selling their CD about successful speeches like “Speech On Race” of Obama. At that time, I think voting is not only the political issue, but also economic issue and I think voters can line up hours waiting for voting.
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"The Serious Truth"
In a recent article, called, “Make it Exciting,” a classmate wrote about voting and how it should be exiting. The writer presented ideas like ring tones, and online texting. The theory being that this would encourage young voters to line up to cast their vote. Being old enough to vote is a right and a privilege that should be taken seriously. Young American voters live in a country where mass market media targets our youth. Since the media is such a powerful medium, this would in fact present voting in a more favorable manner to young voters. If MTV says its cool then its cool. The Media should take more responsibility and inform and educate young voters about the importance of voting. The Media should offer more public service messages that directly target our youth. If the Media would present issues, in a more relevant facet to young adults, then perhaps our youth would gain enthusiasm and further insight of the Democratic process. Dealing with political issues may be unpopular with our youth, but funny ring tones are immature and do not represent American political society in a respectable manner. The politicians that are campaigning should come up with slogans that attract the young vote. “You are our future, your vote will determine the future.” “ Who you vote for today could have an impact on your education and ability to survive financially tomorrow.” “ You can line up to witness a sporting event or entertainment, so line up to vote and witness history impacted by you, the young American voter.” The only fun thing about voting is sharing the opportunity and privilege to vote with your father, mother, brothers and sisters and even your cool friends!! Being young is exiting, but at some point in life, you have to grow up and face the issues along with all your fellow Americans.
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