Feb 21, 2007

Activists say let non-citizens vote

Immigrant-rights activists are renewing their push to allow legal non-citizens to vote in New York City.

A bill that would grant permanent residents and other legal immigrants the right to vote in municipal elections has been stalled in the City Council since last year.

"More than 50,000 adult non-citizen taxpayers in those two districts are disenfranchised by citizenship voting laws," said Cheryl Wertz, of New Immigrant Community Empowerment, referring to today's special election for council seats in Brooklyn and Staten Island.

How can a non-citizen, who has never been given the right to vote, be disenfranchised?

How many countries in the free world would you be allowed to vote if you were not a citizen.

Allowing legal non-citizens to vote would be the first step to allowing illegal non-citizens to vote which is close to happening now in Southern California.

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