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<title>Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States authorizing the territories of the United States to cast electoral votes in presidential elections.</title>
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<action-date>2018-07-26</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Constitutional Amendment</strong></p> <p>This joint resolution states that if the population of a U.S. territory exceeds 30,000, the territory shall appoint a number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the number of Representatives to the House of Representatives to which the territory would be entitled if it were a state. Such electors shall be in addition to those appointed by the states and Washington, DC. Such electors shall perform such duties as provided by the 12th Amendment to the Constitution.</p>]]></summary-text>
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