Assignment:
Write a five page paper (this is the length of the body and does not include the works cited page) on the questions below. Write the entire paper in the third person using citations to back up your opinions rather than writing in the first person. Provide a works cited page for sources containing information used in the paper. The assignment is to be formatted according to the Modern Language Association (MLA) style.
Use Times New Roman 12 point as the paper's font, double space the text, and create one inch margins on all four sides of the page. In addition, the assignment should be formatted according to MLA style for papers with no title page. You must use a minimum of five different sources and cite them within this paper as well as list them on the works cited page using the MLA format. One of the five sources must be a book. This research paper will have to be 100% original. Also, this paper will be free of plagiarism. This paper will also be free of punctuation, grammar, sentence fragments etc. errors.
The questions below is what the paper must be written on:
1. What are some of the historical and contemporary barriers to voting?
2. What accounts for the low level of participation in Texas?
3. What are the arguments for and against voter identification laws?
4. Should a student ID be an acceptable form of identification for voting?
5. What can be done to increase voter participation in the short term? In the long term?
6. Do you think lawmakers and election officials in Texas are open to adopting methods to increase turnout? Why or why not?