A piece of paper holds the future of the country. A piece of paper makes the nation's voice heard. A piece of paper represents the three hundred and twenty-nine point five million people that live in America. That piece of paper is the ballot. Abraham Lincoln once said, "the ballot is better than the bullet,” and he couldn't be more right. When Lincoln was alive, revolution would spark if people couldn't be heard. Now, we have a way to voice our opinions safely in the form of voting. Voting is a very commonplace idea and is used daily by people all around the world.

The right to vote has been a continuous uphill battle in our country's history. Being a democracy you would expect the opposite yet there have been obstacles keeping the right to vote from people throughout our country's history. In the early days, only white men who owned property could vote. This seems hypocritical for an age of revolutionary ideas over equality and freedom after being liberated from a tyrannical king. And yet only in 1920women were granted the right to vote, after decades of being silenced they were finally given the voice they had fought for so long.