  Democracy depends on informed citizens --- who vote! Casting a
vote in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Arab Spring led to
the vote - in Egypt. You may have to wait to vote in Sierra
Leone. Make your vote count!    Initially the Founding Fathers
wanted voting only for wealthy, white landowners, and then only
to vote for members of Congress – not for senators, or the
president. What a long way we have come from the days of the
original Constitution! It took many years of struggle for
African Americans (15th Amendment 1870 - Voting Rights Act of
1965) to be able to vote. Women won the right to vote in 1920,
with the passage of the 19th Amendment. And young men and women,
fighting and dying in Vietnam, inspired the passage of the 26th
Amendment in 1971, empowering young adults, 18 years or older,
to vote. ("Voting and the Electoral College Overview." Gale
Student Resource Center. Detroit: Gale, 2011. Gale Student
Resources In Context. Web. 15 Aug. 2012.) The opportunity to
vote in free elections is becomi