It is not only our obligation to vote, but our constitutional right: The 14th Amendment states– All persons born within the U.S. are citizens and guaranteed rights and privileges (1868); 15th Amendment– No citizen denied the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude (1870); 19th Amendment No citizen shall be abridged of their right to vote based on sex (1920); 24th Amendment – No poll tax is allowed or failure to pay any other tax shall prevent a person from voting (1964); 26th Amendment – All persons 18 or older shall not be abridged of their right to vote (1971); Voting Rights Act of 1965 –Applied a nationwide prohibition against the denial or abridgment of the right to vote on the literacy tests on a nationwide basis
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