With their vote, citizens can defend their rights, protect their interests, and ensure their needs are met.

What does a child need?

1. To grow in a loving family
2. To receive adequate care, health services and education
3. To inherit prosperous and fair economic conditions and a healthy environment

Who looks after those interests? The child's parents or legal guardians, presumably. And the State, supposedly, through policies and legislation enacted by our elected representatives. But those "representatives" represent their constituents, and more particularly, their voters. It is through the vote that citizens defend their interests in the democratic arena.