This measure has already passed, because the ballots are already printed.
Posted on 06/18/2026 1:22:11 PM PDT by 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."
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We’re supposed to work up sympathy for Los Angeles residents.
I’m above that.
So they want to legalize what is already being overlooked.
That will push LA over the edge. Permanently.
Won’t make a difference. L.A. is finished anyways.
So it will return LA to Mexico...
“Hugo Soto-Martinez”
Just saying.
what if they’re conservative voters?
“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...”
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.
“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government…”
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.
who will star as Snake Plissken in the remake of “escape from LA 2026”
Slippin.
Fergot ya.
If they deliberately allow non-citizens to vote in the Presidential election California results should be excluded from the official tally.
This measure has already passed, because the ballots are already printed.
That is exactly the kind of abuse intended to be corrected by the Jan6+- Special Session of Congress that follows every presidential election.
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”.
Swirling into the abyss.
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