SPC2608 7220 800 AM Group 4

 Elections Matter After listening to all of the Elections Matter presentations I can honestly say that I loved everything the groups talked about. I liked that each group focused on a topic yet at the same time all of the topics connected to elections and to the things that affect our lives as college students. Each group helped me understand the topic from a perspective and I liked hearing the research, examples and interviews that the groups included. I think the presentations were a way to learn from our classmates instead of only learning from a textbook. The first group talked about the electorate and the election process. I think this is a topic that everyone should know about because it helps us understand our rights and how our voices can count. Voting is one of the ways people can have a voice in their community and in the country. The presentation had a foundation and I liked that it included interviews and comparisons between elections. I learned that understanding the e...

 As we began the Election Matter project , I thought it would be another group assignment but i was wrong it taught me a lot more then just a simple presentations.Watching all five presentations changed that.Each one looked at different piece of the same big question: how do the decisions made at the ballot box shape our everyday lives ? Group 1 started off setting the foundation for everything that followed. They explained who actually makes up the electors and how the election process works, and that gave the rest of us the context we needed.I really enjoyed how they began with a basic understanding how voting works but seeing it laid step by step made it clear how many pieces have to line up for an election to run. It was a smart choice to go first , because every later topic connects back to it. Group 2 education was a topic I was very interested in because it is my life as of right now being a student at Mdc. They provided how policy decisions affect financial aid , school fun...