Posted on 07/19/2018 6:24:28 AM PDT by Red Badger
San Francisco began registering non-citizens, including undocumented immigrants, to register to vote Monday in the November election for the city school board, reported The San Francisco Chronicle.
The move follows passage of a 2016 ballot measure by San Francisco voters opening school elections to non-citizens who are over the age of 18, city residents and have children under age 19, reported the publication.
“This is no-brainer legislation,” Hillary Ronen, a San Francisco supervisor, told the Chronicle. “Why would we not want our parents invested in the education of their children?”
“We want to give immigrants the right to vote,” Norman Yee, also a county supervisor, told KGO.
But Harmeet Dhillon, who serves on the Republican National Committee, told the station she disagrees with those assessments.
“The reason I voted against it is that I think the right to vote is something that goes along with citizenship and should be,” Dhillon told KGO.
San Francisco became the first city in California to allow non-citizens to vote in local elections following passage of Measure N with 54 percent of the vote after two previous failed tries, reported KTVU.
There are concerns that the non-citizen voter registration rolls, which will be open, could be used to target people who entered the U.S. illegally, reported The San Francisco Examiner.
“Our immigrants, are they vulnerable? Absolutely,” Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer told the publication. “But in San Francisco we stand strong together.”
President Donald Trump and California leaders have clashed repeatedly since the 2016 election over immigration enforcement, sanctuary cities and voter fraud allegations.
Community organizations, such as the Mission Economic Development Agency, plan to meet with non-citizens to inform them of the possible risks, the Examiner reported.
Chicago and some Maryland cities also allow non-citizen residents to vote in school board elections, reported KPIX.
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San Francisco is so full of crap that they can’t even think straight anymore.
So we could ALL register absentee and vote in their local elections?? Sounds like an invitation!!%
The supervisors in SF must have determined there’s a POOP shortage on the city streets... so they moved (pun intended) with this action to insure there soon will be a surplus. I speculate they will be successful.
“......they will move up to the next level and allow illegals to vote for council members and local sheriffs.”.....
The illegals already do vote for those positions. Nothing to stop them once odumbo gave them the “go ahead”. The U.S. election process is a shambles.
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