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ALERT: Plan would grant vote to noncitizens
San Francisco Examiner ^ | 7/2/04 | Adriel Hampton

Posted on 07/05/2004 12:35:21 AM PDT by I_Love_My_Husband

Plan would grant vote to noncitizens

By Adriel Hampton | Staff Writer

Published on Friday, July 2, 2004


URL: http://www.examiner.com/article/index.cfm/i/070204n_vote
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A reform measure that would allow noncitizens with children in the San Francisco Unified School District to cast ballots in Board of Education elections is moving forward and appears to have the needed support to go before voters in November.

The initiative, perhaps the first step toward giving full voting rights for immigrants, could utilize a "blind registry" system, where parents and guardians are signed up to vote through district records. If passed, it would blend citizens and immigrants, according to Carlos Petroni of the "Parents United for Education" campaign.

"We really want to use the campaign to focus folks on the fact that it is very difficult for immigrants to become citizens," said proponent David Chiu, a board member of Chinese for Affirmative Action. "It takes about 10 years for a legal immigrant to become a citizen, and that's due to the huge bureaucratic backlogs and red tape that they face with the federal government."

Illegal immigrants could also vote under the proposal, introducing some of the same concerns present in the statewide debate over whether to legalize driver's licenses for undocumented workers.

"Proponents of both [proposals] can say this is a way that people who are already here can engage," said Laura Hill, a research fellow with the Public Policy Institute of California. "The other side has arguments as well -- [that immigrants] should participate in the same rules and regulations as everyone else."

Karthick Ramakrishnan, also with the institute, said that for those who concede the right of undocumented immigrant's children to be schooled here, it's not a difficult leap to extend Board of Education voting rights to their parents.

"You already have a lot of immigrant parents who are not citizens but nevertheless participate in school board meetings and in their children's education, and this could be another way for them to be involved," he said.

Immigrants comprise about a fifth of voting-age Californians. Proponents of the San Francisco initiative estimate as many as one-third of the 60,000 kids in public schools here have at least one noncitizen parent.

Cities in Maryland, New York, Illinois and Massachusetts have already allowed forms of noncitizen voting.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: aliens; governmentschools; governtmentskrools; illegalaliens; immigrantlist; invasion; sanfrancisco; socialism; welfarestate
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To: Captain Rhino

Pardon the double posting. Server delay in updating the comments section made me think it hadn't gone through.


21 posted on 07/05/2004 3:36:43 AM PDT by Captain Rhino ("If you will just abandon logic, these things will make a lot more sense to you!")
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To: I_Love_My_Husband

We have enough trouble trying to accurately count the LEGAL votes. Now they want to add a few partial voters? Who is going to keep this straight?


22 posted on 07/05/2004 4:39:46 AM PDT by eccentric (aka baldwidow)
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To: I_Love_My_Husband

Shoot let's let Iraq, Iran and Syria vote also. Damn, bring them all on.


23 posted on 07/05/2004 5:14:19 AM PDT by Flint
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To: I_Love_My_Husband

Does this surprise you? They care nothing for this country and they don't believe in sovereignity. And democRATs will do anything for votes that will support their vision of absolute power over the people.


24 posted on 07/05/2004 5:28:36 AM PDT by sweetliberty
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To: I_Love_My_Husband

Previous thread. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1157484/posts.


25 posted on 07/05/2004 5:59:35 AM PDT by Unknown Freeper
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To: Grut

May I suggest that "immune from American taxation" is a stupid idea. The illegals & some legals reap all the other benefits: medical, education, welfare, housing, etc. They can certainly pay taxes to assist with those benefits.

They can also just get busy & do the homework if they want to be citizens & have the PRIVILEGE of voting.

(If you were being sarcastic I apologize ;))


26 posted on 07/05/2004 6:05:06 AM PDT by madison10
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To: *immigrant_list; A Navy Vet; Lion Den Dan; Free the USA; Libertarianize the GOP; madfly; B4Ranch; ..

ping


27 posted on 07/05/2004 8:26:14 AM PDT by gubamyster
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To: eccentric
We have enough trouble trying to accurately count the LEGAL votes.

Your right. The democrats are good at voter fraud and this will just make the waters more murky.

28 posted on 07/05/2004 8:43:10 AM PDT by Missouri
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To: I_Love_My_Husband

The cheapening of American citizenship continues. The majority of American citizens are against granting citizenship privileges to illegal aliens, yet our voices cannot be heard over the agenda of our politicians.


29 posted on 07/05/2004 9:55:06 AM PDT by janetgreen
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To: I_Love_My_Husband
Keep in mind, school policies and public tax dollars may be decided and spent by people who are not U. S. citizens.

This is insanity.

30 posted on 07/05/2004 10:09:13 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: I_Love_My_Husband

Does this mean illegal aliens vote too? FWIW the uber liberal bastion of Cambridge Massachusetts tried this crap years ago and it was denied. Americans are turned off by non citizens voting even in school board elections. Slippery slope and all that...


31 posted on 07/05/2004 10:12:23 AM PDT by dennisw (http://www.prophetofdoom.net/)
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To: I_Love_My_Husband
And how long before we allow immigrants (aka illegal 'criminal' aliens) to run for President or for Congress or for Judgeships?! Maybe the immigrants will be allowed to sign up and vote in U.S. elections in comfort right in their home town deep in Mexico or China or wherever?!
32 posted on 07/05/2004 10:19:40 AM PDT by Ron H. (Texans - The LoneStarConservative state.)
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To: I_Love_My_Husband
It takes about 10 years for a legal immigrant to become a citizen, and that's due to the huge bureaucratic backlogs and red tape that they face with the federal government.

B.S. It took me less than a year.

33 posted on 07/05/2004 10:23:41 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor (...the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.)
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To: I_Love_My_Husband

Let's just score the kalifornia border so that it will break off at the next earthquake.


34 posted on 07/05/2004 10:57:00 AM PDT by ampat
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To: I_Love_My_Husband
If an entity allows non citizen vote, the entities votes
in larger elections should go into file 13.
35 posted on 07/05/2004 11:02:38 AM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Liberals are like catfish ( all mouth and no brains )(bottom feeders))
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To: JerseyHighlander
I think the movie writer/director John Carpenter was onto something:

"In 20**, the rate of communism in America rises beyond measure.

The once-great City By the Bay becomes one big maximum-security facility for America haters.

A fifty-foot containment wall is erected along the shoreline. It completely surrounds inland parameters.

The Golden Gate Bridge and all waterways are mined.

A special division of the California National Guard is encamped around the city.

There are no guards inside the asylum: only lunatics and the fantasy worlds they have made.

The rules are simple. Once you go in, you don't come out."

Escape from San Fran

36 posted on 07/05/2004 11:07:02 AM PDT by NewRomeTacitus (Want to make a difference? http://www.numbersusa.com)
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To: I_Love_My_Husband

The bad news is they already CAN vote, since klintoon signed the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, (Motor Voter) into law. Anyone can register to vote by filling out a voter registration form, and mail it in, they then become a registered voter. Even if they take it in to the county registrar, they can not be asked for proof of citizenship.


37 posted on 07/05/2004 11:26:19 AM PDT by c-b 1
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To: Grut

May I suggest that you can go to live in any country in the world, legally or illegally, as a resident, as a worker, or as a tourist and until you become a citizen of that country you will not be voting in their elections, but you will still be required to pay their taxes.

Why should non citizens be allowed to vote in any election? Allowing that would be no different than allowing me, living here in PA, to vote in CA elections.


38 posted on 07/05/2004 11:31:50 AM PDT by Badray (Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown. RIP harpseal.)
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To: LiteKeeper
NTREP - what part of "illegal" do't they understand?????

Don't rely on a dictionary definition of "illegal". Liberal legislators, backed by Liberal judges and justices, can "legally" interpret that word in any way they want to.

Illegals will have to be deported by the millions, leave on their own accord or be assimilated into society. Any other option will have a cost, monitarily and otherwise, that we will not be able to pay and will be able to tolerable.

There will be no mass deportations and few, if any, will leave of their own accord. Yes? No?

39 posted on 07/05/2004 11:45:56 AM PDT by Consort
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To: Old Kular
despite the efforts of the Governator

The same "governator" who has said that it wasn't 'the right time' or 'it wasn't done the right way' on the issue of licenses for illegals?

40 posted on 07/05/2004 12:02:47 PM PDT by Bella_Bru (It's for the children = It takes a village)
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