Lance corporal is an enlisted rank in the United States Marine Corps. The Marine Corps is the only branch of the U.S. armed forces to have the rank of lance corporal. Early Marine Corps rankings included both a lance corporal and a lance sergeant. Although the rank of lance sergeant was eventually removed from the Corps' ranking structure, the rank of lance corporal was established as a permanent rank in 1958.
Right of foreigners to vote in the United States. The right of foreigners to vote in the United States has historically been a contentious issue. A foreigner, in this context, is an alien or a person who is not a citizen of the United States. Since 1996, a federal law has prohibited non-citizens from voting in federal elections, punishing them by fines, imprisonment, inadmissibility, and deportation.
4 U.S. Census Bureau Since 1996, the number of citi-zens eligible to vote has increased in every presidential election, as has the number of citizens who have reported voting. Overall, 133 million people reported voting in 2012, a turnout increase of 1.8 million people since the election of 2008.Between 1996 and 2008, turnout increases were larger than in 2012, reaching a high of about 15 million additional voters in 2004.verall voting rates for the citizen voting-age population have fluctu-ated in recent presidential elec-tions, from a low of 58.4 percent in 1996 to a high of about 64 percent in both 2004 and 2008 (Table 1).