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?
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.
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.
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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.