College Park MD Legalizes Illegal Immigrants and non citizens to vote

Originally posted by Bentley
I can see some benefit and reasoning in allowing long term residents without a citizenship to vote.

Illegal immigrants? If you so want them to stay in the territory make them legal instead.

But that isn't the law, if non citizens can come here and vote, whats the benefit of being a citizen?

Originally posted by Sable
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This is actually pretty common at the local level.

The trick is, citizenship requirements only apply to the federal level. State/local can pretty much do what they want.

IIrc a well respected source used by the LA times in the past 2016 election said that at least 800,000-1,000,000 non citizens could of or did vote in CA.

And guess who they voted for!

Originally posted by cdtm
This is actually pretty common at the local level.

The trick is, citizenship requirements only apply to the federal level. State/local can pretty much do what they want.

It makes me wonder how the people who worked hard to come here legally feel.

Lol!

Is It Racist? Maryland Officials Dare To Dis-Allow Non-Citizens From Voting

"As The Hill reports, the charter amendment - allowing undocumented immigrants, green-card holders, and immigrants with student visas to vote in municipal elections - was thought to have passed on Tuesday.

However, while the council voted in favor of the proposal by a 4-3 margin, a change to the city's charter in June requires changes receive at least six affirmative votes, the city explained in a press release Friday night.

College Park Mayor Patrick Wojahn shared the update Friday night on Facebook, saying

"It is with a considerable degree of embarrassment and regret that I share this announcement from the city regarding the proposed charter resolution to allow voting by non-citizens in College Park.

I accept my fair share of responsibility for not realizing the impact of recent charter amendments on this issue."

Aw, too bad, so sad.