<P> Any U.S. citizen who resides in Puerto Rico is effectively disenfranchised at the national level, as are all U.S. citizen residents of U.S. unincorporated territories . Although the Republican Party and Democratic Party chapters in Puerto Rico have selected voting delegates to the national nominating conventions participating on U.S. presidential primaries or caucuses, U.S. citizens without a voting residence in one of the 50 states or in the District of Columbia may not vote in federal elections . </P> <P> Both the Puerto Rican Independence Party and the New Progressive Party outright reject the status quo that permits disenfranchisement (from their distinct respective positions on the ideal enfranchised status for the island - nation of Puerto Rico). The remaining political organization, the Popular Democratic Party, is less active in its opposition of this case of disenfranchisement but has officially stated that it favors fixing the remaining "deficits of democracy" that the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations have publicly recognized in writing through reports of the President's Task Force on Puerto Rico's Status . </P> <P> Various scholars, including a US judge in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, conclude that the U.S. national - electoral process is not fully democratic due to U.S. government disenfranchisement of U.S. citizens residing in Puerto Rico . </P> <P> The appeals court decision in 2005, on appeal of the decision in the third filing of the case Igartua - de la Rosa v. United States, 417 F. 3d 145 (1st Cir . P.R. 2005), reads in part: </P>

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