The Big Lie – Voting Won’t Change the Status-Quo

The big white lie, ‘voting won’t change anything’ or ‘if voting changed anything, they would make it illegal’ dissuades individuals from exercising their right to vote. When, in fact, voting is the most potent peaceful action that can make a real perpetual change.

A vote in-itself does not guarantee change. Voters elect candidates, and it’s these nominees who make changes. If the change promised by a candidate does not materialize, then the fault or blame is in the voters judgment not the vote.

Voting is an inheritance left to us by our forefathers, who defended this right often by immense sacrifice. Many risked everything, often paying the highest price, their safety, to earn and protect the right to a vote.

One person, one vote is the biggest threat to the status-quo and the reason why certain governments, peoples, and organizations fear the vote.

Manuel Fernandes

Around the earth, countless people today still placing themselves at risk for the right to access the ballot box. 

The One Person, One Vote, is the most powerful tool which exists in the free world to bring peaceful change to our lives, our country, and our world. Therefore we have an obligation to cast our ballot, even if only for those who left us with this exceptional power.

Women’s Suffrage

• In 1893, women in New Zealand gained the right to vote following years of campaigning.
• In the United Kingdom 1918, women 30 or older, who were married or joined the local government register could cast their ballot.
• In 1917 women in Canada were able to vote in federal elections. Except for First Nation women and Asian-Canadian women. The latter were allowed to vote in 1940. Canadian First Nation, male and female, had to wait twenty more years to obtain the right to vote in 1960.
• In 1920 the 19th Amendment gave all female citizens in the United States the right to vote. Native Americans weren’t allowed to vote until they were granted citizenship in 1924, and many Asian Americans only as of 1952.
• Turkey, in 1934 granted women voting rights to national parliamentary elections.
• Women in Greece have had the right to vote since 1952.