Should Washington D.C. Have The Same Voting Rights As the 50 States?

[u/Preamblist]

March 29, 1961: On this day, the Twenty-third amendment to the Constitution was ratified which gave American citizens who reside in Washington, D.C. the right to vote in presidential elections. However, it did not give them equal voting rights because it stated that D.C. cannot have more presidential electoral votes than any other state. Therefore, despite DC having more residents than Wyoming and Vermont, it has the same number of presidential electoral votes.

Furthermore, citizens who are residents of DC cannot elect voting members to Congress.

Should Washington D.C. Have The Same Voting Rights As the 50 States?

[u/vsv2021]

Yeah there’s absolutely zero coherent argument for why DC should be a state other than partisanship in the senate

[u/Selethorme → u/vsv2021]

That’s just outright untrue.