Puerto Rico is not part of any state nor is it a state itself. Residents of Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories do not have voting representation in the United States Congress. Insular areas are not allowed to choose electors in U. s. presidential elections or elect voting members of the Congress.
About Federal voting rights in Puerto Rico in brief
Puerto Rico is not part of any state nor is it a state itself. Residents of Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories do not have voting representation in the United States Congress. Insular areas, including Puerto Rico, the U. S. Virgin Islands and Guam, are not allowed to choose electors in U. s. presidential elections or elect voting members of the Congress. The lack of direct voting representation for residents of the territory has been an issue since 1917. The United States is responsible for violations of the District of Columbia’s rights under Articles II and XX of the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The remaining political organization, the Popular Democratic Party, has officially stated that it favors fixing the remaining \”deficits of democracy\” Bill Clinton and George W. Bush have publicly recognized that the decision on Puerto Rico’s status in 2005 was wrong, writes Ruben Navarrette. The U. S. Court of Appeals for the Puerto Rican Supreme Court ruled in 2005 that the right to vote for the President and Vice President for Puerto Rico was not a right that should be reserved to the citizens of the Puerto Rico Commonwealth. The Supreme Court’s decision in 2005, on appeal, found the decision to be correct and that Puerto Rico citizens should be able to vote in the presidential election for the first time in more than 100 years.
The Puerto Rican Independence Party and the New Puerto Rican Party reject the status quo, and say that it is the only party that permits disenfranchisement of the remaining remaining citizens in Puerto Rico. In 2003, attorney Gregorioa Igarta filed a suit seeking to enfranchise Puerto Rican citizens in a third round of litigation in a bid to change the status of the island. In 2006, a former governor, Pedro Rosselló, and the Unfinished Business of American Democracy Committee on behalf of the approximately four million U. S. citizens residing in the Commonwealth, presented a petition to the Organization of American States seeking the Commission’s aid in obtainingEnfranchisement. The Commission has yet to make a decision on whether to grant Puerto Rican citizenship to citizens of Puerto Rican Commonwealth or to grant citizenship to all citizens of U. S. territories and the Commonwealth of Puerto Ricardo Island, the Virgin Islands, Guam and the United States Virgin Island, the island of Dominica, the U.S Virgin Islands, Cuba, Guatemala and the United States Virgin Korea, as well as the State of Louisiana and the District of Cambria. The Commission recommends that Puerto Rico citizens be enfranchised in a third round of litigation in 2007, and has yet to make a decision on the issue. In 2007, the Supreme Court decided to grant Puerto Rico citizenship in a second round of litigation.
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