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Essay #29 "Everyone has the rigfit ta take parfi in fihe gavernment of his/her country, directly or fhrough freely chosen representafives. ' Everyone has the righfi of equal access to pubiic servic� in his country. The will of the peaple shall be the basis of the authority af government; this wil( shali be expressed in periodiC and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret baflot or by equivalent free voting procedur�s." � In the Unit�d States of Arnerica, vating �ives yau � way to change the naiion, if you think somefihing is unfair, or if yau disagree with a way things are being handled, you can uafie for it to change. �or example, prohibition. Even thaugh it was revaked, it was put in place by the women wha had gained the right to vote and were unhappy by the way they were being abused by drunk husbands. They were unhappy, so they vated. You can sae this pattern repeated throughout history almosfi �uery time we vate on a new issue. Gay rights, paid sic[c leav�, K�12 budget. These are just a few of the laws passed in fihe lasfi years, Th'snk of how much w� could change this natian! The way we will make change is by voting, so here are same ideas on how to gefi more paople to participate. My fir�t idea is fihat every person who vated in the last election would get a praperty tax break. For example, in Saint Paul, MN the tax rate per house is about 1.295%, so an the average hause y�u would pay $2,567 a year, 1f you put my id�a into place, every person v�ho voted would get a 5 to 10 percent tax break. For the house fhat paid $2,567 doilars a year, if they vated, fihey would now be paying about $2,439 a year. Depending on how impartar�t the voting issue was, the tax break could be raised or lawered, If you rent a property, you could still get a property tax