Elections 2012: An American Tradition – Who Can’t Vote?

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American elections have often been defined by who is not allowed to vote. Two days before the Declaration of Independence, for example the New Jersey Constitution declared that all residents “who are worth fifty pounds” could vote. (That included women…read more

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