Northampton, Massachusetts Wants to Give Non-Citizens Voting Rights – Opinion

Final week, I informed you about how the New York Metropolis Council is getting ready to giving non-citizens with inexperienced playing cards the correct to vote within the metropolis’s municipal elections. Right this moment, they may make it official. The council president has acknowledged proponents “have the votes” and this very dangerous thought will quickly turn out to be legislation. The sponsor of the invoice, Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, is happy as punch with the potential for making “historical past” this week:

“New York Metropolis will probably be making historical past. After getting the correct to vote in native elections on account of this invoice, there’s a excessive chance that immigrants would turn out to be much more motivated to turn out to be residents and vote in federal elections.”

Former Virginia lawyer normal and performing Deputy Homeland Safety Secretary Ken Cuccinelli retweeted my Crimson State article. He later contacted us on how his new group, the Election Transparency Initiative, might assist cease this.

The group I head, Individuals for Citizen Voting, is critically contemplating becoming a member of a lawsuit being filed by the Staten Island Borough President to cease this unconstitutional new legislation. We’re additionally contemplating buying house on an digital billboard in Instances Sq. that reads: “Solely Individuals ought to vote in New York Metropolis Elections. Inform DeBlasio – No international voting in NYC.” I  later realized that Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan retweeted my article with this remark:

As of this morning, Congressman Jordan’s tweet of my Crimson State article has 1,079 retweets, 106 quote tweets and it has been favored 3,616 instances. When Individuals are made conscious that liberal cities and states are permitting non-citizens to vote, in any elections, they turn out to be mad as hell and vocally proclaim they’re not going to take this flouting of our legal guidelines any longer!

Sadly, I’ve extra dangerous information regarding liberal cities planning to offer the correct to vote to non-citizens. This time it’s occurring in Northampton, Massachusetts. State Consultant Lindsay Sabadosa and State Senator Joanne Comerford, have collectively filed Home Invoice No. 832. With the approval of the mayor and metropolis council of Northampton, their invoice will amend the town’s constitution for qualifying for voting. The amended to the constitution will say:

“Each resident of the town or, within the case of an election for ward councilor or ward faculty committee member, each resident of the ward, whether or not a citizen or noncitizen, who shouldn’t be in any other case disqualified from voting below state legislation, shall be certified to vote in all preliminary elections, particular elections and common metropolis elections…This act shall take impact upon its passage.”

As I’ve famous many instances once I write about this subject, proponents of permitting non-citizens to vote say inexperienced card holders pay taxes, and never permitting them to vote is akin to no taxation with out illustration. In fact, that’s a ridiculous argument however that’s the ethical argument they’re utilizing to efficiently sway public opinion.

Individuals for Citizen Voting Polling reveals this controversial subject resonates with Conservatives, Liberals, Republicans, and Democrats and throughout all races and demographics. Opposite to what you might suppose, Hispanics don’t favor permitting non-citizens to vote — nor do they favor particular remedy that places illegals within the entrance of the road to realize authorized standing and citizenship. Admittedly, Progressives have the momentum on their facet however the tide is rapidly altering as extra Individuals turn out to be conscious of this deliberate dilution of our votes.

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