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Originally Posted by mapuc
On H2(More to History) there's a series "How States got their shapes" Today I saw 1/3 of this episode It was about Washington DC
What catch my ears and eyes was that the habitants in that state doesn't have the right to vote.
This was new to me, I thought that every American citizens in and outside USA had the right to vote in the American Presidential or other referendum.
Markus
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Residents in the District of Colombia do have the right to vote in presidential
elections. They obtained it in 1961, however they don't have representation in congress because the Sole purpose of the District of Colombia is to be the Capitol, it has no other purpose.