Measure to give noncitizens the right to vote in LA city elections to go before voters

ABC 7 ^ | June 18, 2026

[MinorityRepublican]

The Los Angeles City Council took one step closer toward possibly giving noncitizens the right to vote in city elections, agreeing to put the measure on the Nov. 3 ballot.

The measure is part of a package of proposed charter changes that will go before voters later this year.

In a decisive 10-5 vote, the council on Wednesday approved a proposal introduced by Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez to implement noncitizen or "residential" voting for city and Los Angeles Unified District elections.

Soto-Martinez emphasized individuals with some form of legal status such as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Temporary Protected Status holders, legal permanent residents would be allowed to vote under such a program.

"This issue to me is really about fairness and representation," Soto-Martinez said. "It just does not make sense to me that someone who moves to Los Angeles for a temporary job has more of a voice than a parent who has been here for decades, raising their children through our public schools."

[frank ballenger]

We’re supposed to work up sympathy for Los Angeles residents.

I’m above that.

[Texas Eagle]

So they want to legalize what is already being overlooked.

[ComputerGuy]

That will push LA over the edge. Permanently.

[unixfox]

Won’t make a difference. L.A. is finished anyways.

[goodnesswins]

So it will return LA to Mexico...

[SharpRightTurn]

“Hugo Soto-Martinez”

Just saying.

[devane617]

what if they’re conservative voters?

[glennaro]

But there is a condition: The illegal alien must promise to vote for the Democrat/Communist/Jihadist Party candidate before they receive a ballot ... and if they can't read or understand English -- which is almost always the case -- they can have a Democrat/Communist/Jihadist Party pollworker do it for them.
See how it all so nicely and efficiently comes together?

[hanamizu]

“It just does not make sense to me that an American citizen who moves to Los Angeles for a temporary job has more of a voice than a parent who has been here for decades, never bothering to become a citizen...”

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I fixed it for you, Hugo.

[econjack]

I can’t believe that LA would let this happen. If it does, I would either question the legitimacy of the count or just write off LA as a lost cause.

[MinorityRepublican]

Article IV, Section 4 (The Guarantee Clause)

“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government…”

[Skwor]

Voters will have likely have little say in this, it pretends to go before voters as the liberals will do their best to just cheat it in.

[thinden]

who will star as Snake Plissken in the remake of “escape from LA 2026”

[thinden]

Slippin.
Fergot ya.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

If they deliberately allow non-citizens to vote in the Presidential election California results should be excluded from the official tally.

[Regulator]

Hugo Soto-Martinzez, the Real American™

This measure has already passed, because the ballots are already printed.

[frog in a pot]

If they deliberately allow non-citizens to vote in the Presidential election California results should be excluded from the official tally.

That is exactly the kind of abuse intended to be corrected by the Jan6+- Special Session of Congress that follows every presidential election.

[Sicon]

As if it matters. Let the illegals vote in L.A. Even if every one of them voted for a republican’t, and even if every person in the city voted for a republican’t, the rat candidate would still “win”.

[little jeremiah]

Swirling into the abyss.