New York City is poised to become the first major city to grant non-citizens the right to vote. The New York City Council’s committees on immigration and government relations will today hold joint hearings on a proposal that would allow non-citizens to vote in city elections, and backers of the effort say they have a veto-proof majority, according to the New York Daily News.
Citizenship is currently a requirement for voters throughout New York State, but this legislation, “Voting By Non-Citizen Residents,” would change that, allowing immigrants who are “lawfully present in the United States” and have lived in the city for longer than six months to vote......To Read More.....
My Take – I don’t know how NYC expects to allow this since voting is a state responsibility and the cities cannot make up their own rules. One reader wondered why the Founding Fathers did make an allowance where a state could be kicked out of the union. The rest of the state isn’t as insane as NYC, but the numbers are all askew. NYC and its five boroughs (July 2012 estimates) have over eight million people and the state has nineteen plus million people. Almost half of New York’s population lives in NYC.
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