This Washington Post story says thousands of Puerto Ricans have been moving to Florida lately, because the economy in Puerto Rice is bad. An accidental byproduct is that as soon as they have lived in Florida for a month, with the intention of remaining, they are free to register to vote. Then they can vote for President and Congress, whereas as long as they lived in Puerto Rico, they could not.
All of the other nations with overseas possessions, except Great Britain, lets residents of their overseas possessions vote in national elections. Those countries are France, Netherlands, Denmark, and Spain. Thanks to Michael Drucker for the link.
Uniform definition of Elector in ALL of the USA — as a matter of national security and *republican govt* Art. IV, Sec. 4.
Residents of Aruba, Curacao, and Sint Maarten do not vote for the Netherlands Parliamant.
But residents of Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba do.
Bonaire, St.Eustatius, and Saba are part of the Netherlands, just as Hawaii and Alaska are part of the United States.
Yes, but they are overseas possessions, in a different continent than Europe, and they have their own postage stamps. Alaska and Hawaii are part of North America and don’t have their own postage stamps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_the_Caribbean_Netherlands
Hawaii is part of North America in what sense?
Washington to Honolulu and Amsterdam to Bonaire are the same distance.
The US Constitution gives the government a postal monopoly. American Samoa should take their case to the UN so that they can issue postal stamps.