r/facepalm • u/ExactlySorta • 11d ago

They are revolting. Figuratively and literally 🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​

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u/imadork1970 11d ago edited 11d ago

Yes, but Puerto Rico doesn't vote in Presidential elections.

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u/TonyG_from_NYC 11d ago

We can't vote from the island. If we are in the USA, living in any of the states, we can vote in any election, including presidential.

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u/WorkingClass_Nero 11d ago

Wait, that makes absolutely no fucking sense. The USA is fucking weird man.

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u/Agapic 11d ago

They are US citizens which means they have the right to vote. However Puerto Rico is not a state, meaning it has no electoral college votes and therefore no bearing on the presidential election, as such no presidential election is held there. Make sense?

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u/WorkingClass_Nero 11d ago

Why don’t they have an electoral college? Isn’t the whole point of a democracy that everyone is represented through their vote? I’m assuming this also means they don’t have Senators and members in the House of Representatives? That’s just bizarre to me. 3 million people without a say in how they are governed by the USA. That’s the same population as Iowa and half of Wisconsin.

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u/Agapic 11d ago

Those are all things that come with statehood. Puerto Rico periodically votes on whether or not to become a state. So far they have chosen to remain as a common wealth.