Four Segway Questions or Facts We Want in our Podcast

Members in the Group:

1) Marissa Villanueva
2) Allie Flores
3) Litzye Guel
Question/Fact One:
How elections worked in the past?
They started out without representing a party. There were no Democrats or Republicans. In the second presidential
elections in history George washington ran as a federalist. John Adams was also a Federalist, but George Clinton was an
Anti-federalist. After 1840 no one has ever run unlabeled for candidacy.
1776: Only people who own land can vote. Right to vote during the Colonial and Revolutionary periods is
restricted to property ownersmost of whom are white male Protestants over the age of 21.

This is important to discuss because:

This is important to discuss because we want to compare elections from the past and election from this year.

Question/Fact Two:
How theyve changed and why?

1776- Only white people who owned lands where able to vote.
1856- Vote expanded to all white men.
1870-Any race is able to vote.
1872-Women try to vote.
1920-Right to vote extended to women.
1971-Voting age lowered to 18
2003-Federal Voting Standards requires states to streamline registration, voting, etc.
2016-Presidential candidates rely on Social media

This is important to discuss because:

This is important to discuss because we will learn the reason of elections being changed. We know elections have
changed from then and we want to know the specific reason why theyve changed.

Question/Fact Three:
How will elections look in 10 years?

-Will non republican or non democratic parties ever be elected?

Considering in the past people used to be strictly federalists or anti federalists its definitely possible for another party to
take over. Although the difference between then and now is a large growth in our voting population. There is definitely a
possibility to see new parties rise up in the election years to come because as we already know, history repeats itself.
Although we typically associate ourselves as Democrats and Republicans we must also consider the other parties that
have a good chance of one day being elected. We typically vote for the party we believe is relevant according to the issues
we are facing. In 1789 we wouldnt vote a member of the green party as president because those issues werent as big of
a predicament as it is now. In 1789 citizens would have prefered to elect either a federalist or an anti- federalist mostly
because it was relevant to the issues the country was facing at the time.
This is important to discuss because:
We are the future, we know there will be different stuff during presidential elections and we want to hear others opinions
on how they think presidential elections will look in ten years.

Question/Fact Four:
Should the elections stay the same? Or should they be changed?
1. I think that the way of how every state is representative should change in the voting process. There are pros and
cons to the electoral college. Some Cons are that it's disenfranchises voters in States which support electoral
college loser, Discourages third parties, allows house of representatives to decide which gives the states one vote.
This is important to discuss because: