Elections
NYC Council Passed Measure to Allow Roughly 800k Noncitizens to Vote in Municipal Elections
It’s official. The New York City Council passed the bill allowing an estimated 800,000 noncitizens to vote in municipal elections.
It’s official. The New York City Council passed the bill allowing an estimated 800,000 noncitizens to vote in municipal elections. The vote was 33 to 14, with two abstentions. Unless Mayor Bill de Blasio vetoes the bill, it will become law.
Mayor de Blasio has previously stated he had no plans to veto the bill. Republicans have threatened to challenge the bill, saying it is unconstitutional. Even a potential legal challenge, de Blasio has already warned is unlikely to survive.
The measure would allow non-citizens to vote for mayor, City Council members, and other municipal officeholders but would not allow them to vote in federal elections, such as for president or members of Congress, or in state elections that elect the governor, judges, and legislators.
The move will allow noncitizens who have been lawful permanent residents of the city for at least 30 days, as well as those authorized to work in the U.S. and DACA recipients, to vote in municipal elections.
If the measure becomes law, the Board of Elections would be tasked with outlining an implementation plan by January. That plan would be required to include voter-registration rules and provisions to create separate ballots for municipal races to safeguard federal and state elections.
New York City would join a dozen communities across the U.S. that allow noncitizens to vote in local elections, including eleven towns in Maryland and two in Vermont, the Associated Press reported.
San Francisco voters have officially recalled extreme progressive Chesa Boudin. The San Francisco Chronicle noted the event as a “historic recall.”
BREAKING: San Francisco removes Chesa Boudin in historic recall.
See live election results, including vote breakdown by district: https://t.co/K8so2kwzTn pic.twitter.com/cfomntkHbX
— San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) June 8, 2022
“The election, closely-watched across the nation, came after months of intense debate over criminal justice and public safety in San Francisco” writes the Chronicle.
The voters are “frustrated with a dysfunctional city” and horrendous crime rates. They saw “an elected official unwilling to acknowledge he was at least partly responsible for the problems – and cast him out.”
Boudin received an overwhelming 60% vote in favor of recall. San Francisco voters “embrace being labeled as progressive” but “decided they wanted a more traditional crime-fighter as district attorney and delivered what will be viewed nationally as a blow to efforts to reshape criminal justice” adds the Chronicle.
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Wendi
December 10, 2021 at 9:02 am
And that’s why they let them all cross the boarder and bussed them all over the United States. Where is our constitution?
Postol Front
December 10, 2021 at 11:25 am
Why bother to have a country or citizenship at all, if this is what these idiots are going to do?
Postol Front
December 10, 2021 at 11:31 am
As a matter of fact, why don’t they just let people in Russia vote!?? At least then they would be correct when they accused the Russians of interfering in our elections!!!
Keith
January 5, 2022 at 9:36 am
This subject is infuriating the only difference will be, now when they vote it’ll be legal. They’ve always voted and they DO vote in presidential elections too! That’s the only reason why California is a blue state.
Without them and dead voters AND double voters Democrats would NEVER get elected.
LMAO NOT‼️
Jill Anderson
January 5, 2022 at 10:48 am
Surely Mayor Bill de Blasio will veto. They are not citizens of USA.
John mac
January 6, 2022 at 5:22 pm
I am from Canada. Can I vote too ??