Lots of legislation in New York City is turning heads in recent days – from 17 ounce soda bans to limits on how much salt restaurants can use. But the Big Apple’s latest bill up for consideration, and likely to pass, would allow non-U.S. residents residing in New York City to vote in city elections.
Yes, really. If the “Voting by Non-Citizen Residents” legislation passes, and according to the New York Daily News it has the votes to do so, immigrants will get to cast ballots and influence municipal elections in New York City. The City Council Committee on Immigration and the Committee on Government Relations are scheduled to take up the measure tomorrow in a joint hearing.
While Mayor Bloomberg has been a proponent of the head-scratching, nanny-state policies restricting soda and salt freedom (and subsequent laughing stock of conservatives everywhere) the liberal mayor has sense enough to oppose the current non-citizen voting rights proposal.
“Voting is the most important right we are granted as citizens and you should have to go through the process of becoming a citizen and declaring allegiance to this country before being given that right,” Mayor Bloomberg said via a spokeswoman.
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