This is my first draft.

Assignment 2

 

Name : Jung Jaehoon

Date : 30. 06. 10

 

Do Not Force Us to Vote

 

         You might hear about why we have to vote in our society, but I am sure that you have experienced that there is nobody who you want to vote. Therefore, you might have heard about North Korea which every people should have to vote when national election. Also, I live in South Korea, and sometimes I do not vote when there is no good person to vote. However, some people should vote in their countries, because if they did not vote, they would have almost 50 dollars fine. On the other hand, I do not think that voting in national elections is mandatory.

 

         At first, if vote rates were so high, people could think our society’s health of democracy is good. In fact, to our lower vote rate, we always worry about crisis of democracy. As you know, vote is one of the democracy’s flowers, and this is the reason why some countries force to vote. However, I think our freedom to vote is as important as vote. According to the Constitution, it gives us the freedom to vote. Nevertheless, some countries oblige their people to vote for the high vote rate, it is against the Constitution.

 

         Furthermore, forcing to vote is same as autocracy, because, there is no choice not to vote. We live in freedom countries now, and they give us that live freely. Even, our country does not do anything for us, they secure us freedom to speak, to think and to assemble. Then, if we did not want to vote, anything could not stop us. Since, there is a freedom not to vote. If someone compelled us to vote, it would be invasion of our freedom.

 

         In addition, there is no good politician for us to want to vote. Have you ever asked to your friends about a good politician? In my opinion, that question is really hard to answer, because there is no such a good politician to vote. Whereas, we should vote, lot of people does not want to vote, because there is not a good politician.

 

         As a result, nobody can oblige us to vote. Firstly, the Constitution does not compel us to vote, also it gives us choice to vote or not. Then, autocracy always wants to force their people to do something, but we live in democracy society. Whether to vote or not, we have the right to make a decision. In addition, nowadays politician cannot catch our fancy to vote to. To conclude, voting mandatory is not necessary in our society, it just depend on people.