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Only citizens can vote.
by nonplussed 6y ago
Only citizens can vote.
- hobs 6y agoIt doesn't matter - when the document was written America had tons of non-citizens and those people were counted. Slaves couldn't vote either, but in the famous compromise were counted as a portion of a person - the distribution of political power is why.
- kevinmchugh 6y agoCitizens of a certain age, who meet certain residency and bureaucratic requirements and haven't lost the right due to criminal convictions. Women only got the franchise 100 years ago, but had always been counted on the census.
- jfengel 6y agoAnd children still can't vote, and are also counted.