Twenty-third Amendment

noun

an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1961, allowing District of Columbia residents to vote in presidential elections.

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D.C. has backed every Democratic presidential candidate since 1961, when the Twenty-third Amendment to the Constitution was adopted, which allotted D.C. three electors.

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