One person one vote one value

• Earlier, we read about how the struggle for democracy was linked to the demand for universal adult franchise
• This principle has now come to be accepted almost all over the world
• Yet there are many instances of denial of equal right to vote
• Denial of equal right to vote

  • Until 2015, in Saudi Arabia women did not have the right to vote
  • Estonia has made its citizenship rules in such a way that people belonging to Russian minority find it difficult to get the right to vote
  • In Fiji, the electoral system is such that the vote of an indigenous Fiji has more value than that of an Indian-Fijian
• Democracy


  Based on a fundamental principle of political equality
• Democracy


  • Each adult citizen must have one vote
  • Each vote must have one value