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The 6th reform: Universal Suffrage for All conceived by Brian Ripley, June 1st 2008

As you can see from Wikipedia, there is still no real universality when it comes to voting. The biggest group left out with the most at risk are children. According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census +/- 25% of the population in the U.S. are under 18 and therefore cannot vote, or effectively inform their government to make changes now that will benefit them or move the national interest more towards "the greatest portion of good".

In Canada nearly 18% of the population is under 15 years of age (2007 Census Estimate). In Mexico 30% of the population is under 15 years of age (2007 Census Estimate).

These future citizens are barred from participation in shaping the world they will inherit.

How do we get this vote out? By proxy, held by the closest female caregiver.

That's right, a child's vote should reside with their mother or the closest female caregiver or guardian.

Women bear the future, they should be entrusted with the vote of the largest ignored class of voters.

Imagine what could happen if we allowed our living inheritors a say in our affairs.

In the United States for very 100 people, if 25% are children, and men and women share the remaining votes somewhat equally, then 37 women would have an additional 25 child votes to influence the other 38 male votes. That's 62 female vs. 38 male votes. That ratio would lead to dramatic change.
 
In Canada, the results would be 59 female vs. 41 male votes, and in Mexico 65 female vs. 35 male votes.*
 
North America would become a model for the rest of the world.
 
The Grameen Bank is a case in point. It was first created as a university research project by Muhammad Yunus in 1976 in Bangladesh as an experiment in micro-banking (small loans to poor people). By 1983 it was made independent by government authority and as of 2007, women make up 97% of the clients who provide a 98% payback of the money borrowed.
 
Yunus discovered early on that men could not be trusted to repay the loans; women could. They used the money for creating businesses that provided income to insure the raising of standards for their families who in half the cases were previously living in desperate poverty but now have their children in schools, three meals a day, clean drinking water, sanitary toilets and rainproof houses.

It's time to acknowledge our future. Let's have Universal Suffrage, let's count all the votes.

*Canada, U.S. & Mexico's populations all show 49% of the total being male.