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3 Potential Topics

• Economic democracy
• Areas of improvement :

1. Sources from the article are extremely outdated
2. Should list more examples of the different economic democracy that are implemented in different country
3. Give examples of how effective is economic democracy by showing examples of different nations using this method to analysis if it worked well for them

• Voter suppression in the United States

1. Add how women were unable to vote in the past due to gender discrimination
2. Add the date of when women were granted rights to vote
3. Elaborate more on how minorities were unable to vote because they did not receive sufficient education

• 2016 United States presidential election

1. For the close states, it gave statistics of which state was close to winning the electoral votes, however not many people would be able to understand
2. The table of the demographic subgroups should include footnotes to where the data was retrieved.

Notes for Improvement to Articles

Article 1 : Voter suppression in the United States

1. The article touched base on how the voting rights system in the United States limits their voting rights. However, an improvement to this is to create another emphasis of when women were allowed to vote in the United States to allow the reader to know different voter suppressions. Additionally, it includes statistic if which minority groups voted in the past, but it needs to thoroughly explain how many minorities were unable to vote because they were illiterate.
2. For the Jim Crow laws, it should include how the segregation did not allow black voters to go cast their ballots in the same facility as white voters.
3. It included the NAACP and the League of Women Voters, however it did not elaborate on what the organization advocate to do.

Article 2 : Economic democracy

1. Since it includes economic, the article mentioned the supply and demand that is related to the topic. By improving this, adding a graph to show a visual illustration to allow the reader to understand.
2. Adding more visuals
3. Compare and contrast to at least one other ideology

Finalize your topic/Find your sources

- Social media in the 2020 United States presidential election

Adding to the article :

- Add how social media is beneficial for both sides of the presidential campaign

- Use more resources and elaborate more on each section ( for example : in the twitter section, it was fairly brief but should include more information in order for the reader to get a grasp of understanding how this social media platform affect the 2020 election )

Additional resources that this article could reference :

Bibliography :

Bergengruen, Vera. “Social Media Firms Brace For An Election Unlike Any Other.” Time, Time, 23 Sept. 2020, time.com/5892347/social-media-platforms-bracing-for-election/. (https://time.com/5892347/social-media-platforms-bracing-for-election/)

“Why Social Media Influence On The 2020 Election Will Look A Lot Like 2016.” 10/09/2019, www.mediapost.com/publications/article/341819/why-social-media-influence-on-the-2020-election-wi.html. (https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/341819/why-social-media-influence-on-the-2020-election-wi.html)

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Improving an Article : Voter suppression

China :

China introduced a new system of voting in which their people are able to nominate candidates to be in the election, as well as vote for more than just one candidate in their ballot. Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese Communist Leader (CCP) changed the new electoral law during the late 1970's. Thus, the new law created a more competition because more people were allowed to be in the ballot, however the country still only allowed one ideology.

Taiwan :

Political participation is crucial in a democratic country like Taiwan. The analysis of the voting turnout in Taiwan has been extremely high compared to other democratic countries. However, the voting suppression in this country focuses on two main factors of age and ethnicity. Thus, the voting suppression in Taiwan is individuals that are higher in age because of poor health. Another factor is understanding the difference in ethnic backgrounds between Minnan and mainlanders affect their participation in political life.

Coronavirus pandemic and voting by mail, 2020 US election :

The outbreak of COVID-19 makes it difficult for the upcoming 2020 United States election. State and local elections executive are making changes into the voting process that are different from what it was before. The large number of COVID cases made the country to decide to postpone primary elections. Another option that will be primarily utilize in the 2020 election is through voting-by-mail, however this method limits citizens that does not have a home. On the other hand, some states with high COVID cases, specifically New York have tried to cancel their primary elections and switch to voting-by-mail.Adding on, "Fifteen other states and two territories...have either pushed back their presidential primaries or switched to voting by mail with extended deadlines." which shows that the voting suppression of the year 2020 would only be available for those that have a home.

Vietnam :

The government system in Vietnam is a one party state that is powered to the Communist Party. In the ballot, candidates are allowed to nominate themselves, but majority of the candidates are picked by the central government. On the election day after every five yearly election, citizens are able to cast their votes for the next 500 new government officials out of the 870 candidates that are in the election.

United States

Due to the Jim Crow laws that were implemented by the laws, there are many repetition in racial discrimination among the voting for government officials in Southern States. Specifically, 87,000 thousands people in Georgia were unable to vote because of late registration. This means that states with the most strictest voting regulations are swing states, which are mostly people that represent the Republican party. According to AMP Reports, many people that were in favored to vote for the democrat party had their ballot dismissed as the study showed an analyze of "A disproportionate number of those potential voters were people of color or young voters, groups that typically favor Democrats." The history of the Jim Crow in the southern states affect the voting suppression today because people that fall into the minority category often have their vote dismissed because of disinformation of the voting regulations.

Japan

Similar to the United States, every citizens in Japan are authorized to vote. However, the age that is required in order to be allowed to vote 20 years old. Any citizens that are younger than the age of 20 are prohibited to cast their ballot. In contrast, there are 178 nations that set their voting age to 18.All Japanese citizens have the free will to cast two ballots. One ballot is for the candidate and the second ballot is to select their political party. Japan is known to use a semi-proportional mixed electoral system in order to select their government officials.

Social Media Impact on Voting Suppression :

The content in regards to election voting on social media includes misinformation and disinformation which globally contributes to voter suppression. Specifically, researchers have reported that Facebook is the leading platform that contains misinformation and disinformation about elections to their users. The contents that are often displayed on this platform is not credible as it may contain incorrect information about voting locations, dates, times, and the due date of the voter registration. Content that is posted on Facebook and Instagram can include misleading information that disinform the users as it is unreliable. Often, biased advertisers that favor a particular political party can pay to display their ads through social media platforms which lead to misinformations among the users that view it.

Response to peer reviews

Thank you Jasdeep Hundal for reviewing my article. I will plan on erasing the voting policies in China and Japan and plan on doing more research to understand the voting suppression in their country. Thus, I will use references from journals or JSTOR, rather than just newspaper articles. Also, I added how COVID could potentially lead to voting suppression but I will remove that part because it does not apply to the voting suppression.