Sentence examples for voting representation from inspiring English sources

Despite public support, attempts to grant the District voting representation, including the D.C. statehood movement and the proposed District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment, have been unsuccessful.

Mr. Fenty hopes Mr. Obama will follow through on his promise to help the city secure voting representation in Congress.

And of course Washington residents do not have voting representation in either the House or the Senate.

And yet, in our polarized political climate, the powerful argument for voting representation in Congress seems perpetually stymied.

The island's four million residents are American citizens, but they have no voting representation in Congress and cannot vote in presidential elections.

It was designed by political leaders here to highlight the fact that residents of the District of Columbia do not have voting representation in Congress.

The Constitution did not deprive the federal district of a voice in Congress, nor did votes cast by its residents for full-voting representation trouble any of the founders who witnessed and, in some cases, benefited from them.

Yet U.S. citizens in the territories are doubly disenfranchised: unable to vote for the president and with only non-voting "representation" in Congress.

By offering the rebels immediate, non-voting representation in Congress, to be followed by legitimate, party-based participation in subsequent national elections, it also envisages a degree of political inclusiveness that could revolutionise Colombia's democracy in ways Farc's ideologists once only dreamed about.

For example, the record refutes the last point regarding the ability of the District to enjoy full-voting representation in Congress, and it does so definitively, yet these rights have not been restored.

In the long run, as larger minority populations in rural states reach voting age, representation through the Electoral College may begin to reflect the nation's actual demographics again.