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The Great Republican Political Strategy of Insult Puerto Rico for Some Reason (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago by usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You do know that has nothing to do with being of Puerto Rican ethnicity, right? It has to do with living on Puerto Rico. You can be a citizen of Indonesian descent who lives on Puerto Rico and you still can't vote for president. But that person, and all of the other U.S. citizens making up the population of Puerto Rico can just hop on a plane or a boat and come to the continental U.S. (or even Hawaii or Alaska), no passport needed, move there without any immigration issues, and vote in the next presidential election.

It doesn't matter what your ethnicity is.

You also can't vote for president if you live on American Samoa or Guam.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I thought that was what I said, but having said that, does any of that make sense to you?Puerto Rico is US territory, you should be able to vote. Same for Samoa and other territories

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

It only makes sense in the context of the electoral college. But I think the electoral college should be gotten rid of via constitutional amendment and the president should be elected by popular vote. In that case, yes, they should be allowed to vote for president.

As it is now, there's no mechanism to assign electoral college votes to non-states.