When did everyone have the right to vote?

Answer 1

• 1789: The first presidential election is held, electing George Washington by unanimous vote of the country's "electors," a group of mostly white male landowners.
• 1868: The Fourteenth Amendment declares that any eligible twenty-one year old male has the right to vote.
• 1870: The Fifteenth Amendment says that the right to vote cannot be denied "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude," thus extending the right to vote to former (male) slaves.
• 1876: Wyoming becomes a state, and is the first state to give voting rights to women.
• 1884: The U.S. Supreme Court rules "grand- father clauses" unconstitutional.
• 1890: Southern states pass laws designed to limit the voting rights of African Americans. Some of the laws require voters to pay a poll tax or to prove that they can read and write.
• 1920: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that since Native Americans who live on reservations pay no state taxes, they cannot vote.
• 1920: Women gain the vote when the Nineteenth Amendment declares that the right to vote cannot be denied "on account of sex."
• 1947: A court ruling grants Native Americans the right to vote in every state.
• 1961: The Twenty-third Amendment establishes that the citizens of the District of Columbia have the right to vote in presidential elections. D.C. is given 3 electoral votes.
• 1964: The Twenty-fourth Amendment declares that the states cannot require citizens to pay a poll tax in order to vote in federal elections.
• 1965: Voting Rights Act bans literacy tests as a voting requirement and bars all racist voting practices in all states.
• 1971: The Twenty-Sixth Amendment lowers the voting age to 18 and gives all Americans the right to vote.
• 1975: Additions to the Voting Rights Act require translations of all election materials to be made available for non-English speaking citizens.

Answer 2

The question is a subjective one, and the opposite is certainly a valid point of view: perhaps there are some people who should not be allowed to vote, for example children (because they're not old enough to understand the issues and make an informed choice), the insane (because they're, well, insane), and criminals (who have demonstrated their willingness to put their own needs ahead of those of society). Even societies that we think of as being relatively big on human rights generally restrict voting to adults and forbid felons from voting.

Answer 3

No, not everyone in the US has the right to vote.

Answer 4

Everyone does not have the right to vote. There are always exceptions to voting rights. By age, gender, criminality etc

Answer 5

no