<P> In 1986, the US Congress voted to restore voting rights on U.S. Military bases for all state and federal elections . </P> <P> D.C., citizens were granted the right to vote in Presidential elections in 1961, after the ratification of the twenty - third amendment . Amendment 23 is the only known limit to U.S. Congressional powers, forcing Congress to enforce Amendments 14, 15, 19, 24, and 26 for the first time in Presidential elections . The Maryland citizens and territory converted in Washington, D.C., in 1801 were represented in 1801 by U.S. Rep. John Chew Thomas from Maryland's 2nd, and U.S. Rep. William Craik from Maryland's 3rd Congressional Districts . These Maryland U.S. Congressional Districts were redrawn and removed from Washington, D.C. </P> <P> No full Congressional elections have been held since in D.C., a gap continuing since 1801 . Congress created a non-voting substitute for a U.S. Congressman, a Delegate, between 1871--1875, but then abolished that post as well . Congress permitted restoration of local elections and home rule for the District on December 24, 1973 . In 1971, Congress still opposed restoring the position of a full U.S. Congressman for Washington, D.C. That year it re-established the position of non-voting Delegate to the U.S. Congress . </P> <P> A third voting rights movement was won in the 1960s to lower the voting age from twenty - one to eighteen . Activists noted that most of the young men who were being drafted to fight in the Vietnam War were too young to have any voice in the selection of the leaders who were sending them to fight . Some states had already lowered the voting age: notably Georgia, Kentucky, and Hawaii, had already permitted voting by persons younger than twenty - one . </P>

Who does not have the right to vote