Major Democrat City Considers Law Allowing Noncitizens to Vote

New York City is considering a law that would allow noncitizens to vote in their local elections.

The law would limit voter eligibility to only two requirements: you must have working papers and have lived in the city for at least a month.

This would, in effect, allow up to 800,000 noncitizens to register to vote!

The law, dubbed the “Our City, Our Vote” bill, was previously struck down in 2022. However, the deep blue city has asked New York’s top state court is reverse the previous ruling.

They are set to decide on the ruling as soon as this week.

Here are the details:

Left-wing New York City is considering a law allowing 800,000 noncitizens to vote in local elections. NEWSMAX's Christina Thompson reports. @cthompsontv pic.twitter.com/h4YKwnQgU2

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New York’s top court could greenlight mass voter fraud this week, deciding whether 800,000 noncitizens will be allowed to vote in city elections.

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— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 11, 2025

I don’t like the precedent this law sets, if passed, one bit…

But, it does show that Democrats are in full panic mode.

Since President Trump was elected, they are scrounging up every resource they have to take back power.

And, that includes trying to get every illegal voter they can find to stack future elections.

Politico reported:

New York’s top court is set to consider whether documented noncitizens can vote in New York City elections — a legal battle that’s tailor-made to catch the eye of the Oval Office.

The case, which will be argued Tuesday, could significantly reshape the city’s political landscape. Nearly a million potential voters would be allowed to participate in elections like mayoral contests if Democrats prevail.

A Democratic victory would also give plenty of red meat to Republicans.

“It’s hard to discuss because it’s crazy it’s even an issue,” said state Sen. Andrew Lanza, a Staten Island Republican. “Citizens ought to vote; if you’re not a citizen of a country, you should not have a say.”

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The legal fight in Albany is the latest front in the political battle over migrants — an issue central to President Donald Trump’s electoral victory last November. Trump and other Republicans have made the unfounded claim that noncitizens are illegally voting in large numbers, and eight states approved constitutional amendments in 2024 explicitly banning their ballots in local contests. But there has also been movement in the other direction. The District of Columbia Council passed a bill allowing noncitizen voting in 2022, and Burlington, Vermont, approved one in 2023.

New York City’s own measure became law in 2022. It would allow green-card holders and individuals with work permits who have lived in the city for at least a month to cast ballots in municipal elections. Republicans quickly challenged the law, and two lower courts have blocked it.

Supporters of the measure have responded that noncitizens have as much a right to determine their city’s future as anybody else.

“In five City Council districts, non-U.S. citizens make up about a third of the adult population,” attorneys for the city’s lawmaking body wrote in a legal filing. “These New Yorkers pay billions in taxes and yet have no say in local policies on public safety, garbage collection, or housing — all matters that affect their day-to-day lives.”

It’s unclear how quickly the law would take effect if the Court of Appeals upholds it. There would likely be only a few months between a decision and the voter registration deadline for the June primary, which might not provide enough runway to implement the change.

A ruling in favor of the law would likely force the city’s political class to overhaul the calculus it applies to local races. In 2021, voters cast 942,000 ballots in the Democratic mayoral primary; in that year’s November general election, 1.1 million people voted.

Most estimates suggest the new law would make an additional 800,000 people eligible to vote. Not all of them would register, but even if a fraction do, that’s still a major expansion of the electorate.

AP via U.S. News & World Report added:

New York’s top court was asked Tuesday to reverse a ruling against a law that would allow noncitizens to vote in New York City municipal elections by lawyers who argued city officials acted within their legal powers.

New York City became the first major U.S. city to grant widespread municipal voting rights to noncitizens in January 2022 — though the law approved by the Democrat-led city council was never implemented due to a legal challenge from Republicans. The city law did not grant noncitizens the right to vote in presidential, congressional or state elections.

A trial judge sided with Republican challengers to noncitizen voting in June 2022. And a mid-level state appeals court ruled last year that the law violated the state constitution and a legal requirement to hold a public referendum on the proposal because it changed an election method.

The city council appealed to the state Court of Appeals. An attorney for the council told the judges that the city government did not violate the state constitution.

“It engaged in a core act of self-governance and the exercise of its home rule powers. This court should hold that the constitution permits the city to make that choice,” attorney Claude Platton said.

The city law gave municipal voting rights to noncitizens who have been lawful permanent residents of the city for at least 30 days, along with those authorized to work in the U.S. Supporters contend the law gives a say to more than 800,000 authorized immigrants. Mayor Eric Adams let the measure become law without his signature.