Voting is mandatory in most of the countries across the globe. What is your point of view on the same? Do you agree with the notion of obligatory voting? If it is compulsory in a democratic society, what conclusions can we draw about ‘Nature of democracy?’
The notion of compulsory voting is quite a controversial one in a democratic context. In a democracy, citizens have the imperative right to choose their own representatives and exercising this responsibility becomes incremental. In this essay, let’s take a look at what a democracy essentially means as well as a few examples of compulsory voting and what are its pros and cons.
To begin with, democracy is termed as a governing system which provides a nation’s citizens the right to rule either directly or by selecting their own elective representatives. Taking an example, if there is no compulsory voting, and the turnup of voters comes around 40%, then the result of the election can be called as unfair because the other 60% voters might not agree with the party that won. In the US presidential elections of 2016, the voter turnout was estimated roughly around 58% as per the United States Election Project. When it comes to India, the 2014 Lok Sabha General Elections recorded 66.40% of turnout as per Press Information Bureau.
Countries like Belgium, Costa Rica, Turkey, Uruguay, and Australia have made voting compulsory with the major argument that if more percentage of a population participates in the elections, it makes the decisions ruled by democratically elected governments more legitimate. Those who still don’t cast their vote in these countries are then subjected to punishments like, barring them from working in the public sector, or from getting a loan or even a passport.
The concluding point of this discussion is that compulsory voting can play a significant role in helping the general public see the importance of their vote in a democratic society. It helps the notion of democracy serve its quintessential purpose, i.e. to give citizens the right to choose a representative of their own.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 110, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, look, so, still, then, well, as well as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.5418719212 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 6.10837438424 49% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 8.36945812808 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 5.94088669951 101% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 20.9802955665 95% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 31.9359605911 122% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.75862068966 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1544.0 1207.87684729 128% => OK
No of words: 298.0 242.827586207 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18120805369 5.00649968141 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15483772266 3.92707691288 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.05934280481 2.71678728327 113% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 139.433497537 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.597315436242 0.580463131201 103% => OK
syllable_count: 488.7 379.143842365 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.57093596059 102% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.6157635468 65% => OK
Article: 4.0 1.56157635468 256% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 1.71428571429 117% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.931034482759 322% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 3.65517241379 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 12.6551724138 87% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 20.5024630542 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 49.1324739862 50.4703680194 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.363636364 104.977214359 134% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.0909090909 20.9669160288 129% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.27272727273 7.25397266985 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.33497536946 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 6.9802955665 57% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 2.75862068966 109% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 2.91625615764 137% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.208591168373 0.242375264174 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0798449356649 0.0925447433944 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0713407578053 0.071462118173 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131044977236 0.151781067708 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0545657210872 0.0609392437508 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 12.6369458128 131% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 53.1260098522 83% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.54236453202 171% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 10.9458128079 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.06 11.5310837438 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.59 8.32886699507 115% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 55.0591133005 158% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 9.94827586207 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.3980295567 123% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.5123152709 124% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 88.8888888889 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 80.0 Out of 90
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