One (wo)man one vote. Free and fair elections. We're all agreed. Right? This is the foundation of liberty laid down in our Constitution. But elections don't always work like that. There are all sorts of tricks to undermine the ability of every individual, rich or poor, black, brown or white, to cast their vote. Look at how quickly the democratic system in Hong Kong was undermined and destroyed. The present legal attempts to gerrymander and suppress the vote in Republican controlled states are designed to make sure that sections of the population find it difficult to vote. The long term consequences of having elections which are less and less fair will be anger. All Americans, whatever side of the political spectrum, must demand fairness. Americans, unable to cast their vote or knowing that to do so is waste of time because their district has been unfairly gerrymandered, are going to be upset, sometimes very upset. To preserve a true democracy across the whole of the United States and set an example to the rest of the world, there must be Federal legislation which ensures and protects the vote across the whole country.