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Will Non-citizens Vote?

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NYC Democrats are trying to pass a measure to allow non-citizens to vote in municipal elections. They propose that anybody who has resided in the city for over a month should be able to vote.

“In five City Council districts, non-U.S. citizens make up about a third of the adult population,” attorneys for the city’s lawmaking body wrote in a legal filing. . . Most estimates suggest the new law would make an additional 800,000 people eligible to vote. Not all of them would register, but even if a fraction do, that’s still a major expansion of the electorate.

This is a nifty trick. Flood the city (county, state, etc) with foreigners and then argue that the sheer number of them means citizenship should be abandoned as a functioning concept.

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      It is a terrible idea. They have done something similar in EU. Some of the areas of EU allow EU citizens to vote in local elections even though they are not citizens of that particular country. For example, about a decade ago, all EU citizens with permanent address in Scotland were able to vote in a referendum about Scotland leaving the UK. It is no surprise the referendum ended the way it did. I find it highly ironic that after that UK citizens voted to leave the EU, especially considering that one of the things EU was threatening Scotland with was that they will expel them from EU if they declare independence.

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