The ballot vote procedure

        Somaliland held its local council election on 28^th of November, this being the fifth consecutive peaceful election held in Somaliland.  The last local council was ten years ago, this election was held to determine the local council and also to find the three parties who will be running for the presidential election for the upcoming decade in Somaliland.

            There were hundreds of candidates running for this election so candidates were split up for the six regions in Somaliland.  Mostly how candidates are chosen is based on clans system meaning people vote for the candidate from their clan.  Certain candidates were running in Hargeisa and so as the other candidates in the other regions.  People had to go to other regions because if the candidate they want to vote for is not running in the region they are.  People faced horrible experiences through these journeys; they were shipped in big trucks.  Candidates were told that there life conditions will be as standard as it is now.  When going to the other region, they had no worries about where they are going to sleep and their food.   Most people when they went there had encountered problems.  They were told to sleep in outside like footballs grounds or in fences.  They were really angry about this and didn’t do the one thing they came for, they didn’t vote.

            On other hand, some people voted multiple times.  Regardless of the fact of multiple voting, the elections would have been democratic and transparent election.  People would go early to the voting places so that they vote the first time there and can go to the other places for a second and third turns.   This was unfair to some candidates because some candidates’ clans are fewer than the others so that the other clans’ candidates had an advantage over the others.   When I went to vote, some of my friends voted already and also were waiting for another turns.  The reason is because if your relative is a member of the candidates, you want him to be elected so the only way to get him elected is by multiple voting. 

 The election would have been more democratic than it was if Somaliland had a better technology.  Ink was put on the hand after you vote but the problem was that ink can be taken off easily.  People used Clorox or some other chemicals to take off the ink and voted multiple times.

Internet bowdlerization

The Internet benefits the world since it contains valuable information that is used for research. Unfortunately the Internet has both good and bad influences.  Most people use the internet for the good, for example like when finding history facts or doing self teaching for example using the website Khan Academy.  When it comes to bad influences, it is using inappropriate sites or websites.  Every person wants to have a complete freedom when using the internet but some people use inappropriate websites.

  Parents want to protect their children from outside influences, children are always curious so it is possible that they visit inappropriate websites such as violent or pornographic websites.  This behavior could affect teenagers negatively.  Research has shown that children who use these websites may have delayed brain development.

            Censoring the websites used in the internet is a great idea depending on which types of websites are used.  An illustration is spark notes; it is a websites that does your reading.  Most people when assigned homework turns out to be lazy and don’t do their reading so the only option is using spark notes to get free summarized and analyzed notes and ideas.  Spark notes should be censored because it lessens how much the student reads and their reading capability.   

            Internet should be censored in order to protect people especially teenagers because they are the most susceptible to the negative effects of the internet.  Internet provides both constructive and not useful information things but that not useful things may cause harm to people who visit those websites.

The Internet benefits the world since it contains valuable information that is used for research. Unfortunately the Internet has both good and bad influences.  Most people use the internet for the good, for example like when finding history facts or doing self teaching for example using the website Khan Academy.  When it comes to bad influences, it is using inappropriate sites or websites.  Every person wants to have a complete freedom when using the internet but some people use inappropriate websites.

  Parents want to protect their children from outside influences, children are always curious so it is possible that they visit inappropriate websites such as violent or pornographic websites.  This behavior could affect teenagers negatively.  Research has shown that children who use these websites may have delayed brain development.

            Censoring the websites used in the internet is a great idea depending on which types of websites are used.  An illustration is spark notes; it is a websites that does your reading.  Most people when assigned homework turns out to be lazy and don’t do their reading so the only option is using spark notes to get free summarized and analyzed notes and ideas.  Spark notes should be censored because it lessens how much the student reads and their reading capability.   

            Internet should be censored in order to protect people especially teenagers because they are the most susceptible to the negative effects of the internet.  Internet provides both constructive and not useful information things but that not useful things may cause harm to people who visit those websites.