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Give voting rights to the 4 million legal U.S. Citizens of American territories around the world.

Created by R.B. on March 09, 2015

We live in a day and age where we take many things for granted. 50 years ago natural born citizens of this country were finally given the freedom to exercise that privilege after years of discrimination and obstruction based solely on the color of their skin. 45 years before that, we finally allowed women to vote and have a say in the shaping of our country. Yet after all we have done to grow and move forward in those 95 years, there is still to this day American born Citizens and Nationals who do not have the right to vote. I'm speaking of the over 4 million people living in the US controlled territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Somoa
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/09/john-oliver-puerto-rico_n_68333...)

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