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D.C. residents have no representation in the Senate. The Twenty-third Amendment, adopted in 1961, effectively entitles the District to three [a] electoral votes in the election of the president and vice president. The District's lack of voting representation in Congress has been an issue since the capital's founding.
In the 2000 presidential election, Barbara Lett-Simmons, an elector from the district, left her ballot blank to protest its lack of voting representation in Congress. As a result, Al Gore received only two of the three electoral votes from Washington, D.C. [4] In 2016, 85.7% of the registered voters approved a statehood referendum. [5]
Section 1. The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct: A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in ...
The first sentence of the 12th Amendment states “ (T)he Electors shall meet…, and vote by ballot for President and Vice President, one of whom, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state ...
Kamala Harris calls for unity during DC speech . ... The nearly 3.3 million Puerto Ricans living in the territory can not vote for president, ... Those residents can cast a ballot in this year's ...
For purposes of representation in the Congress, election of the President and Vice President, and article V of this Constitution, the District constituting the seat of government of the United States shall be treated as though it were a State. Section 2. The exercise of the rights and powers conferred under this article shall be by the people ...
Vice President Kamala Harris won 93 percent of the vote in the nation’s capital and Republicans in Congress have shown a willingness in recent years to intervene in D.C.’s political affairs.
Incumbent Democratic president Joe Biden was running for re-election to a second term, and became the party's presumptive nominee, but withdrew from the race on July 21. [3] [4] He then endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, who launched her presidential campaign the same day. [5] The Republican nominee was former president Donald Trump. [6]