Presidential Vote Facts

Washington,D.C. residents could not vote in presidential elections until the ratification of the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1961.


Although Puerto Rico participates in U.S. Presidential Primaries (recently Clinton vs. Obama) U.S. citizens living in Puerto Rico are not allowed the right to vote in Federal elections.



Many Americans have stated that they favor fixing the remaining "deficits of democracy" that the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations have publicly recognized in writing through reports of the President's Task Force on Puerto Rico's Status.

http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/documents/2007-report-by-the-president-task-force-on-puerto-rico-status.pdf


Various scholars (including a prominent U.S. judge in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit) conclude that the U.S. national-electoral process is not fully democratic due to U.S. Government disenfranchisement of U.S. citizens residing in Puerto Rico