New York, Boston Consider Allowing Non-Citizens to Vote
Terry Trippany on Jun 13 2007 at 10:35 am | Filed under: Feature Article, Illegal Immigration, Linkfest
New York City Council Member Charles Barron speaks
at a press conference in favor of non-citizen voting rights.
The full court press is on by cities across the country that are working with a group called the Immigrant Voting Project in an effort to allow non-citizens to vote in American elections.
Here is a statement from the Immigrant Voting Project website.
Efforts to reinstate voting rights for noncitizen residents –which were widespread in 40 states and federal territories until the demise of the practice in the 1920s– are underway across the country Legislation has been re-introduced in Massachusetts, where several local communities are seeking home rule authorization from the state legislature and Minnesota, a state with a long history of nonresident voting rights which seeks to amend the state constitution to restore those rights (along with voting rights for ex-offenders). New York City introduced legislation in 2005 and re-introduced it in April 2006.)
The Vermont Immigrant Voting Alliance (VIVA) recently held a demonstration election in Burlington to educate immigrants and raise public awareness of how enfranchising noncitizens would help everyone. Other contemporary efforts include California (where San Francisco’s November 2004 ballot included Proposition F to allow all residents to vote in school board elections), Connecticut, Illinois (which has allowed noncitizen voting in school board elections since 1998), Maine, Maryland (where six communities allow noncitizen voting and additional campaigns are underway), North Carolina, Texas, Washington DC (where a bill was introduced to City Council in July 2003 to allow legal permanent residents to vote), and Wisconsin.
Note the phrasing in “raise public awareness of how enfranchising noncitizens would help everyone”. In other words we are disenfranchising them by not allowing them to vote. Never does it come into the realm of public discussion that perhaps allowing them to vote disenfranchises American citizens by diluting their vote and making their voice less significant; American citizens who truly do pay taxes and just dues to the American system. Despite the sign in the image above there is no way to track whether or not illegals are paying taxes and it is a lie to pretend otherwise.
Who is behind these massive nationwide efforts?
Clue, whenever you want to find out who is backing organizations that are created for the express purpose of removing the borders that protect Americans with the rights and perks of being, ahem, American, you need look no further than the open borders pro-legalization of drugs socialist George Soros. It seems that most of these efforts lead to his deep pockets in one way or another. I haven’t tracked down funding but do see support.
As expected big money gets the attention of the mainstream media like nothing else. Time magazine did a feature yesterday on the latest initiative.
Earlier this year, Takoma Park, Md., A suburb of Washington with a liberal tilt, held a special election to fill a vacant city-council seat. It was the town’s latest contest under a 1992 law that allows any adult resident–including noncitizens–to vote for local offices. And since the election occurred at an odd time of year, officials took extra steps to get the word out. They mailed a notice, in Spanish and English, to every home. They sent a second notice to every registered voter. Yet when Election Day came, turnout was light, especially among noncitizens: not one of them cast a ballot.
A single election may not be the fairest test. But as New York, Boston and several other cities consider allowing noncitizens to vote, the benefits of doing so are murky. Immigrant-rights advocates insist that giving newcomers a voice in local government integrates them quickly into their communities–and encourages them to become citizens. Opponents say that’s backward: voting means little to an immigrant who hasn’t earned citizenship. It’s a divisive debate, and in a nation grown chilly toward immigrants, supporters of noncitizen voting have a tough case to make.
I personally had no idea that non-citizens were ever allowed to vote. This makes little sense to me and may explain why many local governments play favor to the illegal immigrant crowd. The scam can be seen when one understands that many of these elections are done without tracking who is an American citizen and who is not. Thus I would have to think that a utility bill is more than enough to get that vote.
This is not the American way. Allowing voting without ID’s is an open invitation to corruption. Unfortunately most politicians like it that way. The status quo is the way to go for politicians who wield power by the influx of votes no matter where they come from.
Update: I wanted to follow this up with an extension of a discussion I had in this comment thread with Perri Nelson. My problem isn’t that legally residing non-citizens vote in local affairs. My problem is the attempt to open up the ballot boxes sans ID. I would be willing to bet that everyone one of these groups that advocate opening up the ballot box would be crying to every msm outlet possible about the disenfranchisement of ID requirements. It is a straw man argument and no sensible person would argue such unless their was an agenda behind the argument. We know that illegal immigrants would be the first group to drop off the rolls if IDs were required and this is where I see issues.
Judicial Watch bolstered this argument with a release yesterday:
Voter fraud committed by illegal immigrants who actually cast election ballots in one Texas county is more widespread than originally thought and federal authorities have launched investigations into neighboring municipalities.
A few weeks ago election officials in the south central Texas county of Bexar admitted that hundreds of illegal immigrants registered to vote and subsequently cast ballots, canceling out the votes of United States citizens. Now federal authorities are, not only investigating the fraud in Bexar, but also in nearby Harris, Tarrant and El Paso counties.
It turns out that many of the illegal immigrants voted in more than a dozen local, state and federal elections since 2001. This has evidently struck the interest of the Department of Homeland Security because the violators probably filed false United States citizenship claims.
The integrity of the U.S. voting system has been compromised many times in the past with documented incidents of illegal immigrants and non citizens casting ballots. The Federation for American Immigration Reform has tracked numerous instances when non citizens voted in major elections in various states, including California and Florida.
These people are voting and it easily disenfranchises legal citizens yet open borders poeple like George Soros never complain about that. It is an affront to every legal voter.
See also: Michelle Malkin - Just stealing the IDs no one else will steal
Correction - I thought the OSI Fight for Immigrant Rights forum was held this year. It actually occurred in 2005. The article has been updated to reflect that.
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Trackposted to Perri Nelson’s Website, Blog @ MoreWhat.com, stikNstein… has no mercy, Maggie’s Notebook, Leaning Straight Up, The Bullwinkle Blog, The Amboy Times, Cao’s Blog, and The Yankee Sailor, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.
Charles Barron, non-citizen voting rights, Immigrant Voting Project, Massachusetts, Vermont Immigrant Voting Alliance, George Soros
Non-citizens have had the right to vote in local elections and in state elections more than once. There is nothing inherently wrong about this, provided they are residents of the areas in which they vote. At least, there is nothing wrong on the surface of it.
After all, they are residents and they are affected by the elections that take place in the area where they live. They may be affected by taxes when taxes are on the ballot. They may be affected by a great many things. If they are here legally, they have the right to equal protection under the law, why not give them a say in that law?
Non-citizens however do NOT have the right to vote in National elections. THIS is where these initiatives to allow non-citizens voting rights in local districts become a problem, because once in the polling place there is no way to ensure that that they do not vote for a national office.
Usually this is because only one ballot form is printed per district. When there’s a national election the elections office would be required to print one for citizens and one for non-citizens. Poll officers would then be required to inquire about a voter’s citizenship to determine which ballot to give the voter.
Can you imagine the outcry from the left when THAT happens?
Agreed. I don’t have a problem with permanent legal residents having a right to vote. My biggest problem is that supporters of these initiatives are transparently apparent in their true intentions. They are adamantly opposed to efforts that require picture ID’s as a requirement to vote.
Judicial watch just published a report yesterday that shows rampant corruption in Texas related to illegal immigrants voting in state, federal and local elections.
- src (Illegal Immigrants Vote In U.S. Elections.)
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