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16. This may surprise you, but there is no right to vote enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.

According to Jonathan Soros and Mark Schmitt at Democracy:

"There is NO constitutional guarantee of the right to vote."

In order to become a naturalized citizen of the United States, until recently you had to answer this question: “What is the most important right granted to U.S. citizens?” The correct answer, according to the United States government, was, “The right to vote.” But that “right” has always been on shaky ground.

Just as the Constitution once countenanced slavery, it also allowed voting to be restricted to property-holding white men. The Thirteenth Amendment expunged the stain of slavery from our basic law, but the Constitution has never fulfilled the democratic promise we associate with it.

Put simply—and this is surprising to many people—there is no constitutional guarantee of the right to vote. Qualifications to vote in House and Senate elections are decided by each state, and the Supreme Court affirmed in Bush v. Gore that “(t)he individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States.”
http://www.democracyjournal.org/28/the-missing-right-a-constitutional-right-to-vote.php?page=all

Those restrictions have disenfranchised ex-convicts, poor people, minorities, poor non-landowning White men, and women.

So, I'm sorry, but a "right" with restrictions is not a right...it's a privilege. So you got that wrong.