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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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Actually Washington DC isn't a state, it's just a District and they do have the right to vote in Presidential elections although they don't have Senators and Congressmen to represent them. In this they join territories such as Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa and a bunch of other small territorial possessions.
Referendums are created by the local state or territorial government and as such are specific to that body. I've never seen a ballot question that was on the ballot in all 50 states.