Some assembly required,
Posted on 08/06/2017 8:44:10 PM PDT by TChris
Officials in College Park are weighing a plan that would make their city the largest in Maryland to give undocumented immigrants a right to vote in local elections, a long-standing practice elsewhere in the state that has drawn new scrutiny amid the simmering national debate over immigration...
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
They may want to consider that citizens might be triggered by having their vote diluted by foreigners.
Some assembly required,
On what grounds would the federal DOJ get involved in this issue? Federal law explicitly allows aliens to vote in state and local elections if so authorized by state or local governments. The text of the law reads:
§611. Voting by aliens
(a) It shall be unlawful for any alien to vote in any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing a candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, unless-
(1) the election is held partly for some other purpose;
(2) aliens are authorized to vote for such other purpose under a State constitution or statute or a local ordinance; and
(3) voting for such other purpose is conducted independently of voting for a candidate for such Federal offices, in such a manner that an alien has the opportunity to vote for such other purpose, but not an opportunity to vote for a candidate for any one or more of such Federal offices.
(b) Any person who violates this section shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
(c) Subsection (a) does not apply to an alien if-
(1) each natural parent of the alien (or, in the case of an adopted alien, each adoptive parent of the alien) is or was a citizen (whether by birth or naturalization);
(2) the alien permanently resided in the United States prior to attaining the age of 16; and
(3) the alien reasonably believed at the time of voting in violation of such subsection that he or she was a citizen of the United States.
and the relevant statute is here:
OK, I was wrong on that part. But it sure seems to be a camel getting his nose into the tent, doesn't it?
You can script this out. If you have non-citizens voting...then you have to accept non-citizens holding office. It’ll take probably four to eight years, but you will end up with members of the city council or the mayor...who are non-citizens, but holding visas/green cards. Then one day around a dozen years in the future...someone will run who has no green card and be an illegal alien.
By this point, the Latino community will be larger than the black community (now at 11-percent versus 14-percent). A minority conflict will arise and some group will try to break off the city...so you end up with North College Park and South College Park.
Agreed. I suppose the only thing to do is to take it up with congress, not the DOJ.
You’re not wrong, the statute doesn’t authorize illegals to vote.
Nobody said anything about illegals. It's just about non-citizens here legally.
Those promoting this have a plan to cheat. The Chinese would dispatch them with haste at the curb outside their offices.
Well, I learned something tonight. Hmm.
Does not mention illegal aliens under that statute.
§611 ...
WRONG.
This does not ‘explicitly allow aliens to vote in state or local elections’. It is silent on such considerations.
I hope that you are not insinuating that protecting US elections from alien voters equates to ChiCom thuggery.
It’s a local election. They can do whatever they want. You really want the Feds getting involved in local elections?
Let’s elect foreigners.
Then they can appoint other foreigners. And you, citizen, can GFYS.
Wadda gonna then? Huh? WTF are you talking about daddy?
See my post #5.
...but I still don't like it.
Looks like another way to increase property taxes.
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They must be desperate for more democrats... maybe the city could like pet cats vote too... sign ‘em all up as democrats.
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