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✓Right to Vote
Ryan Baidya
California Takshila University

My inbox is now full with the requests to vote in November, 2018. Also they are asking me to
contact families and friends so that they too come to exercise their right to vote. Right to Vote is
one of the most-valued assets we as a citizen of the Nation posses. Yet there had been incidents
that citizens throw away that asset like used paper towels. BUT WHY?

Current Candidates are quite concerned about citizens not exercising their right to Vote, and that
is a very valid concern. If we step back for a little, we can see how much blood had to flow, how
much suffering and grief had to endure before we achieved this most-valuable asset. Yet, we do
not protect it - we throw away this asset even without thinking a bit. Why?

The answer to that is in the systemic problem in the present processes. The system certainly does
not encourage citizens to vote. The system also does not allow the citizens to exercise true Right
to Vote.

While there are hunger and savage killing of people where human being emerged from cave-
people to socially developed intelligence being in parts of African continent; while there is
fireballs and screams in the places of early civilization and human democracy – the croissant of
civilization; while there is paining baby-face looks at the world with disgust; it is a total failure
of the elite, the brains, the Nobel laureate, the think-tank analyst, and the world organizations,
and its titled members.

They all say that they are playing with the fire for freedom, and the right to live. That is right, it
is the RIGHT to have RIGHT, and it is worth to die for to have the RIGHT. A RIGHT to speak;
a right to have expressed; above all a right to select our representatives – the voting right is the
right of an American Citizen that many are jealous of, at least that what we are told. This is
fundamentally critical for a civilized nation of a democratic class to have voting right. As
President Abraham Lincoln best described democracy as "government of the people, by the
people, and for the people." For that government to be "by the people," however, requires that
the people decide who shall be their leaders including Mayors, Congressman, Senators,
Governor, and the President, .
 Without free and fair elections, there can be no democratic society, and without that constant
accountability of government officials to the electorate, there can, in fact, be no assurance of any
other rights. The right to vote, therefore, is not only an important individual liberty; it is also a
foundation stone of free government.

Thus, the article 12 in the Bill of right gives the United State of America to its all Citizen –the
Right to Vote. It clearly states: -The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be
denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous
condition of servitude.— Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1870).

Even after the President Lincoln’s vision, we did not get it quite right. In the article 12 of Bill of
right left the word sex. And it was not added until 1920’s revision. The right of citizens of the
United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on
account of sex — Nineteenth Amendment (1920). Rights yet cartel with respect to economic
miss fortune – it is hard to understand how this sub-clause coming into play. The right of citizens
of the United States to vote in any primary or other election . . . shall not be denied or abridged . .
. by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.— Twenty-fourth Amendment (1964).

Further modified the voting right by age in 1971 The right of citizens of the United States, who
are eighteen years of age or older, to vote, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or
by any state on account of age.— Twenty-sixth Amendment (1971). Here is what President
Abraham Lincoln would say - you got it right the RIGHT finally.

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