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« on: February 08, 2010, 09:28:10 PM »
« edited: February 08, 2010, 11:08:36 PM by Хahar »

This is in the country you live in. At what point (ignoring age restrictions) would you be allowed to vote?

EDIT: Assume you're a property owner if you're a minor and your parents own property, yeah.

The Luce–Celler Act of 1946 allowed Indians to become citizens, so I would be able to vote then.
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« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2010, 09:30:57 PM »
« Edited: February 08, 2010, 09:34:37 PM by hawkeye59 »

Well, I guess at the time white people who didn't own land could vote.
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« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2010, 09:33:48 PM »

This is in the country you live in. At what point (ignoring age restrictions) would you be allowed to vote?

The Luce–Celler Act of 1946 allowed Indians to become citizens, so I would be able to vote then.

I thought your heritage was Bangladeshi?

White gentile (if that matters) male, although not a landowner. Tongue
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« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2010, 09:36:55 PM »

From federation (1901). In the colony of Victoria from the 1870s I think.
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« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2010, 09:37:06 PM »

This is in the country you live in. At what point (ignoring age restrictions) would you be allowed to vote?

The Luce–Celler Act of 1946 allowed Indians to become citizens, so I would be able to vote then.

Imagine Thind's balls to take this to the supreme court in the 1920's

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Bhagat_Singh_Thind
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« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2010, 09:39:53 PM »

1789, as a white land owning male.
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« Reply #6 on: February 08, 2010, 09:40:18 PM »

Who says I can vote in the country I live in now? For the country I am a citizen of, I would guess 1918, although it is really impossible to say what my social standing would have been in the nineteenth-century.
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« Reply #7 on: February 08, 2010, 09:49:40 PM »

1918 I guess

But in pre-partiation Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth I'd be able to vote due to noble heritage, ew...
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« Reply #8 on: February 08, 2010, 09:56:23 PM »


I thought you were a Jew? Huh
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« Reply #9 on: February 08, 2010, 09:56:58 PM »

I am too. So? I don't live in MD.
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« Reply #10 on: February 08, 2010, 09:57:04 PM »

This is in the country you live in. At what point (ignoring age restrictions) would you be allowed to vote?

The Luce–Celler Act of 1946 allowed Indians to become citizens, so I would be able to vote then.

I thought your heritage was Bangladeshi

Bangladesh didn't exist as an independent country until 1971, Pakistan until 1947
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« Reply #11 on: February 08, 2010, 09:58:20 PM »

1789 as a white male landowner (an ethnic one though)
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« Reply #12 on: February 08, 2010, 09:58:29 PM »


You don't own land, right?
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« Reply #13 on: February 08, 2010, 10:07:48 PM »

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« Reply #14 on: February 08, 2010, 10:09:43 PM »

You != your parents for those who are claiming to be landowners.

It depends on which state I lived in, but the property requirement was abolished from 1812-1860 for white males in states, so sometime then.
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« Reply #15 on: February 08, 2010, 10:11:13 PM »


That doesn't matter in 1789 America.
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« Reply #16 on: February 08, 2010, 10:20:19 PM »

You still don't own land.
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« Reply #17 on: February 08, 2010, 10:23:25 PM »


Yeah, that.  I thought ignoring age limits meant property requirements, as well.  My bad Tongue
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« Reply #18 on: February 08, 2010, 10:25:39 PM »

You != your parents for those who are claiming to be landowners.

It depends on which state I lived in, but the property requirement was abolished from 1812-1860 for white males in states, so sometime then.

Age is not factored in, so I'm just assuming I'm a twenty or thirty-something in this hypothetical. I hope to own land when I'm in my thirties, after all.
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« Reply #19 on: February 08, 2010, 10:37:25 PM »

At the moment anyone else would be allowed to vote given my current circumstances, or well, my circumstances at the age I would become eligible to vote. I would have been characterized as part of the "oppressor" class from soup to nuts.
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« Reply #20 on: February 08, 2010, 11:02:29 PM »

Non land-owning white male here...sometime in the Jacksonian era, I presume.  Although I am in DC, so if I was stupid enough to have DC residence, probably not until the 1970s.  Tongue
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« Reply #21 on: February 08, 2010, 11:02:55 PM »

as far as I can tell.. 1858 when MN became a state.
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« Reply #22 on: February 08, 2010, 11:04:23 PM »

It depends on which state I lived in, but the property requirement was abolished from 1812-1860 for white males in states, so sometime then.
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« Reply #23 on: February 08, 2010, 11:08:47 PM »

I've cleared up the ambiguity.
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« Reply #24 on: February 09, 2010, 11:01:31 AM »

1918, I think. Franchise rules before then were absurdly complicated, but I'm pretty sure I'd be disqualified by them. I would, however, have been able to vote in Preston (but only in Preston) before 1832, oddly enough.
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