Commentary: The right to vote is key to democracy

Winston Churchill famously quipped on the floor of British House of Commons in November 1947, “Democracy is the worst form of government except all the other forms that have been tried from time to time.” His assessment is as true to today as it was then. Representative democracy, while imperfect and messy, is still the best system of governance we have. And essential to our democracy is the right to vote. While it’s the very thing that can make democracy so messy, it’s a