LEITE JÚNIOR, J. W. G.; LEITE JÚNIOR, José Wilfrido Grangeiro.
Abstract:
Since the beginnings of civilization, man, as a component of society, trying to achieve
an ideal way of government. It was in Greece that emerged that the system gave its
citizens equal rights to govern the state, democracy. Although it has undergone
changes to adapt to the demands and needs of modern States, democracy has
preserved its essence, serving as a model to the world and is doing enforce the
representation given by the vote in the electoral system. Besides essential to the
performance of citizenship, the vote ensures the nations to implement effective
democracy. The universal suffrage to materialize by the vote. After brief trip by the
evolution of this institute in our country, which arrived in pipelines are permitted today
for the individual performing its role of citizen. Meanwhile, despite compulsory in
Brazil, the vote is being affected, among other factors, by the practice of repeated
electoral reasons. Statistical data show that the rules governing the elections
ultimately provide another alternative to the electorate, not the vote valid. This work
aims to monographic examining the reasons and its impact in the elections. By using
data from surveys in official bodies, laws and bibliographical works, it was on behalf
of citizenship and democracy, the need to bring the issue of justification afloat as a
way to remedy the inconvenience held in context.
