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.

On Saturday, July 25, Frank Fahrenkopf appeared on the Smerconish show on CNN. Fahrenkopf has been the most influential leader of the CPD since it was established in 1987. He said the Commission hasn’t decided yet whether to ease the 15% poll rule for entry into the general election presidential debates. He mentioned that the Annenberg Working Group on Presidential Campaign Debates had recently suggested that the first debate should have a 10% threshold. He said the Commission will decide by one year before the first debate. Because the first debate is usually in the first week of October of the election year, that means a decision by early October 2015. See this news story about some of the things Fahrenkopf said.