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Lets burn this!

14th Amendment Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed.

Are we on our way to corporate voting?
That Amendment has nothing to do with establishing who may vote. It simply determines how representation in Congress is done, and that section read as a whole refers to natural persons (humans), not artificial persons (corporations, LLCs, etc).

The right to vote is decided by the states subject to the following limitations in the U.S. Constitution:
  • citizens may not be denied the right to vote because of their race, color, or previous condition of servitude (Amendment XV);
  • citizens may not be denied the right to vote on account of their sex (Amendment XIX);
  • citizens may not be denied the right to vote for a federal office (President, Vice President, Representative or Senator to Congress) for the failure to pay a poll tax or any other tax (Amendment XXIV); and
  • citizens age 18 or older cannot be denied the right to vote based on their age (Amendment XXVI).


There is nothing in the federal Constitution that limits the right to vote to citizens, so a state could permit immigrants to vote if it wanted (and indeed over a century ago some states did just that). Nor is there anything in the U.S. constitution that limits the right to vote to natural persons, though I rather think no legislature would pass a law allowing corporations or other artificial persons to vote – I don’t think the public would support that and they’d find themselves out of office. So I don't see that happening any time soon. You can imagine the kind of voting abuse opportunities that would permit. But in theory it could be done if that’s what people wanted.