New York Democrats Want To Let Non-Citizens Vote

NEW YORK CITY PLANS TO LET NEARLY ONE MILLION NON-CITIZENS VOTE

In New York City, “a bill to enfranchise noncitizens” in the city’s elections “appears to be within close reach” of passing the City Council, having support from 36 of the Council’s 46 Democrat members.
If passed, the legislation could add about 900,000 non-citizens to New York City’s voter rolls.
- 900,000 new voters in New York would represent a population larger than the city of San Francisco.
- Any non-citizen who claims to have lived in New York for 30 days would be eligible to vote.
Some Democrats, including Bronx councilman Rubén Díaz (District 18), have called the effort to enfranchise non-citizens “dangerous and misguided.”
Outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-NY) claims he isn’t certain that allowing non-citizens to vote is “legally what a city can do,” but doesn’t see any “scenario” where he would veto the proposal.
- In New York, Article II, Section 1 of the state constitution restricts voting to “citizens” who are 18 or older and have lived in New York for at least 30 days.
In this year’s New York Mayor Democrat primary, the outcome was decided by just 7,197 votes, meaning these non-citizen votes could have swung the race to another candidate.

THIS IS JUST THE LATEST RADICAL MOVE BY THE FAR-LEFT, DEMOCRAT CONTROLLED CITY COUNCIL

The New York City Council has a history of pushing a radical, far-left agenda.
Last month, the Council voted to remove a statue of Thomas Jefferson from City Hall after 187 years.
Earlier this year, the Council banned qualified immunity for police officers.
Last year, the Council voted to defund the police, cutting $1 billion in funding from the NYPD.
- Kristin Richardson Jordan, elected to the Council in November, wants to go even further and slash NYPD’s budget to $0, disgracefully smearing it as a “white supremacist institution.”
The recent November elections showed that New Yorkers are unhappy with the Council’s radical policies, with Republicans doubling representation on the Council as a result.

JUST LAST MONTH, NEW YORKERS REJECTED BALLOT INITITATIVES TO WEAKEN ELECTION INTEGRITY

In New York, two statewide ballot measures sought to eliminate provisions of the state constitution that prevented same-day voter registration and universal vote-by-mail.
- The provisions were firmly opposed in many upstate counties — including in Erie County, home of the Democrat-heavy city of Buffalo.
- Neither measure received more than 45 percent of the vote.

DEMOCRATS ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE NOW OPENLY TRYING TO LET NON-CITIZENS VOTE

Earlier this year, the Democrat-controlled Vermont General Assembly voted to let two towns in the state “allow non-citizens to vote” in local elections.
In Illinois, State Senator Celina Villanueva (D) introduced legislation to “allow non-citizens to vote in local school board elections” statewide.
In Washington D.C., Councilmember Brianne Nadeau (D) re-introduced a bill that would allow non-citizens to vote in local D.C. elections.
- If passed, the bill would expand voting eligibility to “legal permanent residents — Green Card-holders — and would apply to the elections for mayor, D.C. Council, State Board of Education, Advisory Neighborhood Commissions, and attorney general.”
In California, the Los Angeles Unified School District authorized a study into allowing non-citizens to vote in school board elections, which is expected to lead to a ballot measure.
Six cities in Massachusetts have begun the process to consider giving “voting rights to non-citizen residents in municipal elections.”

LETTING NON-CITIZENS VOTE IS A RADICAL POLICY

Federal law makes it illegal for non-citizens to vote in federal elections, and only the most far-left cities and local municipalities have previously let non-citizens vote.
Ten Maryland cities have made changes to their charters to allow non-citizens to vote in local elections.
- Since March 1992, non-citizens in Takoma Park, Maryland have been allowed to vote in local elections.
- Other Maryland jurisdictions that allow non-citizens to vote in local elections includes, Barnesville, Chevy Chase, Garret Park, Glen Echo, Hyattsville, Martin’s Additions, Mount Rainier, Riverdale, and Somerset.
Since 2016, San Francisco lawmakers have allowed non-citizens to vote in school board elections regardless of their immigration or citizenship status.
Since 1989, Chicago has also allowed non-citizens to vote and serve on its school councils.

AMERICANS OVERWHELMINGLY OPPOSE LETTING NON-CITIZENS VOTE

Americans reject letting non-citizens vote, with 71 percent of Americans opposing San Francisco’s decision to let non-citizens vote in school board elections.
Voters in four states — Colorado, Florida, North Dakota, and Alabama — have overwhelmingly supported ballot measures in the last few years saying that only U.S. citizens can vote in their state’s elections.
Even though voters overwhelmingly reject letting non-citizens vote, Democrats in Congress appear to have no problem with it.
- In 2018, less than a third of House Democrats voted to condemn local policies to let non-citizen vote.

THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE IS PUSHING BACK

The Republican National Committee (RNC) is fighting back against these blatant attacks on election integrity by engaging in lawsuits on this very issue.
In September, the RNC filed a lawsuit against the cities of Montpelier and Winooski, Vermont over their new charters letting non-citizens vote in their municipal elections.
The RNC is also engaged in an important lawsuit in Pennsylvania, calling on Pennsylvania's Democrat-run Department of State to reveal records related to a potentially massive flaw in the integrity of Pennsylvania's election system.
- Due to mismanagement under the watch of Pennsylvania Democrats, as many as 100,000 non-citizens may be registered to vote in Pennsylvania elections.