The right to vote in national elections. A set of rules for participating in elections.
- universal suffrage
- each citizen has a right to vote
- equal suffrage
- each vote is worth equally, equal weights
- direct suffrage
- directly voting representatives (Austria, Germany)
- (indirect suffrage)
- voting the electoral college to vote the representatives (US)
- personal suffrage
- no substitution by another person
- free suffrage
- no discrimination on how to collect votes
- e.g. providing fewer voting stations in poorer neighborhoods
- no discrimination on how to collect votes
- secret suffrage
- secret ballot to protect electoral freedom