Posted on 04/05/2015 4:08:43 PM PDT by 9thLife
New York City council is currently drafting legislation that would allow all legal residents, regardless of US citizenship, the right to vote in city elections
New York City is routinely described as a “global hub”, a place so thoroughly penetrated by international capital and migration that it seems at once within and without the United States. It is the centre of American commerce and media, but its politics, demographics and worldly outlook make the Big Apple an outlier.
New York may be about to become even more distinct. The left-leaning New York City council is currently drafting legislation that would allow all legal residents, regardless of citizenship, the right to vote in city elections. If the measure passes into law, it would mark a major victory for a voting rights campaign that seeks to enfranchise non-citizen voters in local elections across the country. A few towns already permit non-citizen residents to vote locally, but New York City would be by far the largest jurisdiction to do so.
Under the likely terms of the legislation, legally documented residents who have lived in New York City for at least six months will be able to vote in municipal elections. Reports suggest that the city council is discussing the legislation with Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office, and that a bill might be introduced as soon as this spring.
While the legislation stands a good chance of sailing through the council and even winning the approval of the mayor, the prospect of New York City enfranchising its residents has stoked controversy. Many Americans find the idea of non-citizen voting entirely unpalatable and fear that it undermines the sanctity and privilege of citizenship.
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“As New York City goes,” Dromm said, “so goes the rest of the world.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Why bother with the inherent messiness of elections in the first place ? We can just rely on the moral and mental superiority of our betters. After all, they mean the very best for us underlings. Just shut up and give them whatever they demand of you.
Obviously the current voters are for it; they put the folks in place that move this crap forward. The current voters have proven they are progressive, so what, at this point, does it matter?
All this assuming the elections were not fraudulent.
Bwahahahaaaaaaa. Self-loathing suicidal LIBs are something else.
It is no longer the Dem Party, it is now the ComDem Party.
Communist merger was formally consummated in 1984. The last year that the CPUSA ran a POTUS candidate. Since then they have always endorsed the Dems (ComDems).
They WANT/INTEND to totally collapse the system.
1/2 or more of the nation will refuse to comply. They can forget Texas. Will be a hot war before we accept this crap.
OK. Listen: Voters.Do.Not.Decide.Elections.
I concur. That’s why I qualify the potential/obviousness of fraud.
I’m quite sure this entire country is not made up of enough stupid people for honest elections to have resulted in the government we have.
Ditto New York City.
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