r/USEmpire • u/speakhyroglyphically • Nov 04 '24
Americans excluded from the ballot: Puerto Ricans
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u/n0ahbody Nov 05 '24
I forget where I saw it but there was a video yesterday the Trump campaign put out that had a band singing for Puerto Ricans to vote for Trump. Does Trump even know they're not allowed to?
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u/Prof_Aganda Nov 06 '24
There are a lot of puerto Ricans who reside on the mainland, so as citizens they can register to vote as soon as they reside in a state. He potentially fumbled an important voting block with those tony Hinchcliff roasts.
I agree it's pretty egregious for them STILL not to have statehood. I guess as recompense they supposedly don't have to pay federal income taxes or something.
Funnily enough, they vote in the primaries we all know are worthless.
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u/speakhyroglyphically Nov 04 '24
More than 3 million citizens living on the US island of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean don’t have the right to vote in the presidential election.
Several Puerto Ricans tell TRT World they feel like second-zone citizens and that the US treats this unincorporated territory as a possession where the population is disenfranchised.
They describe Puerto Rico as the world’s oldest colony, first ruled by Madrid, now by Washington and say the US government is breaking multiple international laws despite calls for autodetermination by UN experts.
Some demand independence from the US and say the island is being exploited while others want Puerto Rico to become the 51st state of the US and that residents benefit from the same rights as the rest of Americans.