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Taxation Without Representation

By immigrationprof

A Feb. 20 New York Times (here) article quotes Ron Hayduk, the author of “Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the United States” saying “until the 1920s, 40 states and territories allowed noncitizens to vote in local, state and even federal elections.” New York City should allow legal immigrants who are not citizens to vote in local elections, according to an alliance of more than 60 organizations that announced a renewed effort yesterday to secure that right. The alliance, the New York Coalition to Expand Voting Rights, called on the City Council and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to support a bill, introduced by Councilman Charles Barron of Brooklyn, that would allow legal immigrants who have been in the country for more than six months to vote in elections for mayor, comptroller and public advocate, as well as for the five borough presidents and 51 council members.

KJ