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 ...
WTF? Destroyed from within and no one will lift a finger. God help us.
New York City makes the Right To Vote completely useless ?
These people are crazy!
The NYC City Council is a joke. They make Berkley look like...well, that might be going a bit too far. But they probably make Boston look like San Antonio.
Mostly without, I should think.
It seems positively alien at times.
Boycott New York, how will the Christian-hating media and left defend that one?
does that mean us in FL and the south can vote in their elections too seeing as non Americans are allowed?
Yipee! Now you can choose your favorite drug cartel backed candidate and they don’t even have to pretend that they’re not.
The rising dollar could punish this City.
Sure, why not?/s
Anyone NYC resident who is not on government assistance better leave soon; real soon. You’re only going to get so many warnings before it’s too late.
“The rising dollar could punish this City.”
Why would that be?
One hundred percent unconstitutional.
Meaning, of course, it will sail right through the SCOTUS just fine.
This will hasten NYC's collapse, and I, for one, will laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh....
And, finally, because, if the nominal premise of the article is correct -- that NYC is as much foreign as domestic -- well, that only works while on euro buys a dollar and half or so.
Damn good question.
Imagine the huge whirlpool in the ocean and NYC rotating around the rim. Did God decide it was time to FLUSH NYC?
Next, seven billion absentee ballots mailed around the world. Why shouldn’t everyone in the world vote in our elections?
Connect dots as they present themselves.
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