Legislation is currently being drafted in the NYC council to permit (legal) non-citizen residents vote in municipal elections. This is maybe the fourth or fifth time such legislation has been attempted, but previous attempts have been thwarted, most recently by Mayor Bloomberg and Speak Quinn (despite a veto-proof majority in the council, Quinn, who was grooming herself as Bloomberg's replacement, refused to let it come to the floor). They're both gone now, so there no longer exist any obstacles in city government. Mayor de Blasio has been ambivalent--officially he is "open to conversation" about it.
A recent article in The Guardian (which I believe is just a reprint of a story in one of our local rags) gives some details, or you can read about it in the The National Review.
I'm curious what the rest of America/the world thinks. I'll hold my comments until a few people have had a chance to vote/weigh in.
A recent article in The Guardian (which I believe is just a reprint of a story in one of our local rags) gives some details, or you can read about it in the The National Review.
I'm curious what the rest of America/the world thinks. I'll hold my comments until a few people have had a chance to vote/weigh in.
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