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Twenty Third Amendment does is to give votes for President and Vice President in the Electoral College to the District of Columbia which equals the least number of votes that any State could have.

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Basically, Washington, D.C. is not a state, despite repeated attempts to turn it into the 51st state. So, in theory, the people that live there could not vote in the presidential elections.

Under the Electoral College, each state has as many electors as it has Representatives and Senators in the United States Congress. Each state has two representatives, and a number of senators based on its population, so the states with the largest populations also have the largest number of electors. When you cast your vote, you're really not voting for the President; you're telling one of the electors how you want HIM to vote.

For example, California, with its population of over 36 million people, has 53 senators and 2 representatives, and therefore it has 55 electors (53+2). States like Montana, which have a population of less than a million, have only 1 senator and 2 representatives, and therefore have 3 electors (1+2).

The 23rd Amendment gives Washington, D.C. electors (and thus, the ability to vote for President), equal to the state with the smallest number of electors. Therefore, Washington, D.C. gets 3 electors, same as Alaska, Delaware, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming, which have 3 electors each.

This makes the total number of electors equal to the number of seats in the Senate (435), plus the number of representatives (100), plus the 3 allowed to Washington, D.C., for a total of 538 electors.

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The 23rd amendment has been created in order make the people living in the district of columbia have the right to vote in the presidential election by granting district electors in the electoral college as if it were a state.

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the lelection of the presidentis solely decided by the electoral colloge, not the popular vote, meaning that candidate who receives

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The 23rd amendment was passed because the citizens of District Columbia (A.K.A Washington D.C) were not aloud to vote because the City was not considered a state.

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