Kalin Norman, photography editor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nvoters have more of an attitude of not caring. To quote Andre 3000, \u201cY\u2019all telling me that I need to get out and vote, huh, why? Ain\u2019t nobody black running but crac-kers, so, why. I got to register?\u201d This is the \ufb01 rst problem with voting, voter interest. According to U.S. News, Jackson State has roughly 5,331 students enrolled with a healthy amount, like myself,<\/p>\n
that are from out-of-state, and one of the most frequented replies when asked about voting is; \u201cI don\u2019t live here, and I\u2019m not planning to stay when I \ufb01 nish.\u201d When it comes to short term voting, this a very dangerous way of thinking for that community that they attend. For obvious reasons, this is bad because it leads to lost votes, but it also shows that (unlike other areas) the community is broken and doesn\u2019t want to work together to improve their current situation. Okay now let us say that everyone votes for every election. My next question for you is, when voting how do you know that the state is getting your vote right? Like the majority of the country you probably don\u2019t know, and that brings me to my next problem of voting security. Voting security has been a big question since the 2016 presidential election with the suspected Russian tampering\/medling. Even though that has been a question sitting on people\u2019s mind for almost \ufb01 ve years now, little to nothing has been done to improve the voting machines or the security of them.<\/p>\n
Mississippi uses paper to machine voting (\ufb01 ll out bubbles on paper then feed it to a machine that counts it), which isn\u2019t a bad thing. It is probably the best move the state can make for voting for backup purposes, but if the state\u2019s Internet is anything like Jackson State\u2019s, then its residents are in trouble. Since it has been found that in many voting stations around the country being completely unattended machines that can be hacked and infected. Everything I\u2019ve mentioned so far are preventable or \ufb01 xable, but still the biggest and oldest elephant is still in the room when comes to voting. No matter how you feel we all must admit that the Electoral College is extremely<\/p>\n
\ufb02 awed. Due to this system of voting it turns everyone\u2019s \u201cvotes\u201d into suggestions, and gives the country an inaccurate re\ufb02 ection of its people. This system also opens the country up to in\ufb02 uences such as private businesses, government\u2019s personal interests, and wealthy friends that in no way helps the country\u2019s people. Plus the Electoral College is massively disportionate, giving smaller populated states more power over the other states. Voting is important and should be taken seriously, because it is a cornerstone of the American experience. However, I do believe that voting, on every level, is an extremely \ufb02 awed process and needs to be \ufb01xed.<\/p>\n
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