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Must be free to everyone. No income discrimination in voting.
Would you like just anyone to walk into Social Security and apply for benefits??
No, but not comparable. You or someone upon whom you are dependent must earn Social Security. Voting is a right.
No, voting isn't really a right. Is it found in the "Bill of Rights"? Saying something doesn't make it so.
Sheesh, Wolfie, where did you come from? Where did you go to school?
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)
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)
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)
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)