Elections in the United States are held for government officials at the federal, state, and local levels. At the federal level, the nation's head of state, the president, is elected indirectly by the
Voters cast ballots for the 2020 elections at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa.
Enfranchisement and disenfranchisement of different groups have been a moral and political issue throughout United States history.
Congress overrode Andrew Johnson's veto to pass the 1867 District of Columbia Suffrage Act (Thomas Nast, Harper's Weekly, March 16, 1867)