The document discusses the importance of the right to vote in a democratic society. It notes that citizens often take this right for granted or do not exercise it, despite how hard others fought to achieve it. While some parts of the world still experience violence and oppression, citizens in the U.S. have the right to vote for their representatives, which is fundamental to a democratic system. However, the system does not always fully encourage or allow citizens to vote freely. The right to vote is protected by amendments to the U.S. Constitution that prohibit denying citizens the right to vote based on race, sex, failure to pay a poll tax, and age for those over 18.

1. ✓Right to Vote
Ryan Baidya, Ph.D., MBA
Takshila Foundation, California, USA
My inbox is now full of requests to vote in November 2020. Also, they are asking me to contact
families and friends so that they too come to exercise their right to vote. The right to Vote is one
of the most-valued assets we as a citizen of the Nation possess. Yet there had been incidents
where citizens throw away assets 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 their true
Right to Vote.
While there are hunger and savage killing of people where human being emerged from cave-
people to socially developed intelligence in parts of the African continent; while there are
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 dying 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 is 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 the "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, congressmen, senators,
governors, and the president.

2. Without free and fair elections, there can be no democratic society, and without the constant
accountability of government officials to the electorate, there can be no assurance of any other
rights. The right to vote, therefore, is not only important individual liberty; it is also a foundation
stone of free government.
Thus, article: 12 in the Bill of Rights 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 President Lincoln’s vision, we did not get it quite right. Article 12 of the Bill of
Rights left the word sex. And it was not added until the 1920s 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 concerning economic miss
fortune – it is hard to understand how this sub-clause comes into play. The right of citizens of the
United States to vote in any primary or other election . . . shall not be denied or abridged . . .
because 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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