The District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.) does not lie within a state; therefore, in the U.S. Constitution its citizens did not originally have a vote for president nor did they have any electoral votes. How was this changed in 1961 to allow residents of the District to cast votes for president?

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The Twenty-Third Amendment was ratified in 1961, granting the residents of the District of Columbia the right to vote for president by adding them to the Electoral College. This amendment did not make the District of Columbia a state, nor did it give residents full representation in Congress.