Posted on 10/11/2021 7:07:32 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Noncitizens will be able to vote in two Vermont cities as part of a growing national trend, unless lawsuits prevent new laws from taking effect.
The cities of Montpelier, with about 7,375 residents, and Winooski, with about 7,335, both will allow noncitizens to vote in local elections for offices such as mayor, city council, and school board.
Related changes to the two city charters required the approval of voters as well as the state’s Democrat-controlled Legislature, which in June overrode a veto by Vermont Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican.
“These are very liberal cities with progressive Democrats,” Rob Roper, president of the Ethan Allen Institute, a free-market think tank based in Montpelier, told The Daily Signal.
“Throughout much of the state, there is a general distaste for allowing anyone other than citizens over the age of 18 to vote,” Roper said. “Many oppose the idea [of noncitizen voting] and worry about the precedent.”
The Republican National Committee and the Vermont Republican Party last week filed a lawsuit against each city in Vermont Superior Court, asserting that the state Constitution says only U.S. citizens over the age of 18 are qualified to vote in Vermont.
Elsewhere in liberal states, San Francisco, Chicago, and several jurisdictions in Maryland already allow noncitizens to vote in at least some local elections. Meanwhile, municipal lawmakers in New York City and Los Angeles are among those considering similar proposals.
Vermont is one of the least populous states in the nation. Just 4.7% of the population is foreign-born in a state that is 94.2% white, according to U.S. census data.
But census numbers don’t tell the full story, Roper said.
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Oh, crap. We're finished. I'm not allowed to talk about trees and how they can be nourished properly...
That has been the whole point of the illegal alien inundation and high legal immigration, and don’t think for second that they are not already voting all over the country.
If non citizens can vote the only “benefit” of citizenship will become jury duty.
“Camp of the Saints” was supposed to be fiction.
This is what the illegal alien invasion has been about. Been evident for decades.
That has been the whole point of the illegal alien inundation and high legal immigration, and don’t think for second that they are not already voting all over the country.
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yep
I’ve long believed in something called Texas colonialism.
Texans voting in Vermont.
Imagine Bernie sanders replaced by someone like Ted Cruz.
Those are all people who will one day be ‘World Citizens’ once these globalist regimes claim they’re the authority.
Illegals can vote in Vt. but the Electoral college doesn’t have to accept their votes.
it is said that people in Vermont are just too stupid
and powerless to care who runs and Owns them.
Then they are meat to be harvested.
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