The Right to Vote Should Be a Human Right
Making Universal Suffrage Truly Universal Will Make Our World More Unified—And Democratic
How can we make universal suffrage truly universal?
That such a question must be asked points out a democratic paradox. Universal suffrage—the term meaning that everyone has the right to vote—is described as a fundamental feature of modern democracy. But there is no democracy where universal suffrage is actually universal.
That may surprise you, because more than 100 countries on Earth claim to have universal suffrage. But by that, they mean only that there are no distinctions between voters based on gender, race, ethnicity, wealth, or literacy.
In reality, all democracies prevent many …
