2. Provide a paragraph on an important issue of your choice from Section 2:Aliens-foreign-born residents who have not become citizens- are generally denied the right to vote in the US. Still, nothing in the COnstituation says that aliens cannot vote, and any State could allow them to do so if it chose. At one time about a fourth of the States permitted those aliens who had applied for naturalization to vote. Typically, the western States did so to help attract settlers.
3. Provide a paragraph on an important issue of your choice from Section 3:The first law passed by Congress to implement the 15th Amendment was the Civil Rights Act of 1957, which set up the United States Civil Rights Commission. One of the Commission's major duties is to inquire into claims fo voter discrimination. The Commission reports its findings to Congress and the President and, through the media, to the public. The Act also gave the attorney general the power to seek federal court orders to precent interference with any person's right to vote in any federal election.
4. Provide a paragraph on an important issue of your choice from Section 4:Clearly, the time that it takes to vote should not be significant part of the answer. For most people, it takes more time to go to a video store and pick out a movie than it does to go to their neighborhood polling place and cast a ballot. So we must look elsewhere for answers.
5. Explain voter apathy and what can be done to help it:
In politics, voter fatigue is the apathy that the electorate can experience when they are required to vote too often.
You can't force someone to vote or when they vote to often they may become apathetic to voting.
6. Explain the qualifications for registering to vote:
Be a citizen of the USReside in South Dakotabe 18 years old by the next electionNot be under a sentence of imprisonment for a felony conviction
6. Explain the qualifications for registering to vote:
Not have been adjudged mentally incompetent by a court
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