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If they could vote how many electoral votes would Puerto Rico have?
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∙ 15y ago
They have no electoral votes. On October 13 2000, by a vote of 3 to 0, the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment does not allow Puerto Rico any electoral votes. The decision by the Appeals Court reverses a District Court decision to allocate 8 electoral votes to Puerto Rico (Igartua v USA, 00-2083). Following the District Court ruling, the Puerto Rico legislature authorized a Presidential election. Ballot access was granted to political parties who submitted 4,000 signatures. Two candidates, Gore and Bush, met this requirement and were placed on the ballot. The Democratic Party of Puerto Rico filed a lawsuit to cancel this election. The Puerto Rico Supreme Court voted 6 to 1 on November 2, 2000 to cancel the election on the grounds that is was a waste of taxpayer dollars (Galib v Comision Estatal de Elecciones, 2000-161).
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 15y agoPuerto Rico has a population of ~4 million. If it was a state, it would fall directly behind Kentucky (~4.4 million) and directly ahead of Oregon (~3.8 million) in population. Kentucky has 8 electoral votes, and Oregon has 7 electoral votes. That means that Puerto Rico would get either 7 or 8 votes. However, the electoral vote distribution will change with the 2010 census, so these figures may (although not necessarily) change.
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