Voting is a method by which a group of people expresses their opinion or their decision followed by debates, discussions or election campaigns. Voting is more commonly known as election when used in representative democracy in which the electorate elects among candidates for office. The electorate elects their representatives in government in political voting.
The individual act in voting is called Vote, by which a person expresses his support to a particular resolution or motion, a candidate, or a political party. The person may express his disapproval of a particular policy, candidate or political party by voting against it. There are various types of voting like the plurality voting system in which a voter selects his most preferred candidate using a single vote. In Approval voting, multiple votes can be cast. There are also other types of voting like preferential voting, scored voting, multiple-winner system and others.
People select based on their knowledge what policy, policymaker and government are best for them through voting. It is the most important part of a democracy, in which power is with a common man not just with the top leaders, elites or rich because in voting there is no consideration of status, race, sex or other factors.
The perception of South Africans in casting votes is different especially the poor citizens. This is due to the belief of people that no political party is truly representative. And this lead to the campaign of “No Land! No House! No Vote!” which could be seen and heard easily in days of the election. Voting is the right of the citizen, hence he should never misuse this authority because the future of the country depends on the elected political party.