aldompdx
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In the U.S., one may not vote by proxy. However, one may vote by mail in advance, as an "absentee." And, some of the United States permit voting exclusively by mail. In the U.S. there remain some traditionalist people who believe that certain classes of persons should not have the right and power to vote. As originally written in the Federal Constitution: "Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned ...according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons." Persons imported as property were not allowed to vote, nor women. There presently exist many such people who want to go back in time, and reverse the evolution of individual freedom; among other things, by imagining that a corporation is a special individual entitled to unfettered freedom with greater rights than an organic person.
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