African Americans and Native Americans today face entrenched difficulties in voting. American laws also allow the very richest to avoid paying taxes and to influence elections (and then policy) by spending money. Such laws disenfranchise all nonbillionaires by granting to the few electoral power not enjoyed by the many. A country with oligarchical elections and voter suppression is not a land of the free. A democratic America would establish an equal right to vote for all citizens at all times.
