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Subject: Re: The Joy Of Democracy
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 10:13:06 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-10-24, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> On 23 Oct 2024 19:46:30 GMT, rbowman wrote:
>
>> Do you know how the Electoral College is formed?
>
> I know about the “Three-Fifths Compromise”. That allowed the
> slave-owning states to get more say in the election of the President
> augmented to some extent by their slave population, without those
> slaves getting any actual votes. Clever, don’t you think?
>
>> Washington DC gets 3 votes despite not being a state.
>
> I wonder why there is so much opposition to it becoming a state ...
>
><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_Voting_Rights_Amendment>

Because its border was carved out of the territory of two states, Maryland 
and Virginia, specifically so Federal capitol was not in any state. The 
District of Columbia was supposed to be neutral territory.

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