A major push in New York City to make non-citizens legal voters in the city.
A bill that would grant permanent residents and other legal immigrants the right to vote in municipal elections has been stalled in the City Council since last year.
"More than 50,000 adult noncitizen taxpayers in those two districts are disenfranchised by citizenship voting laws," said Cheryl Wertz, of New Immigrant Community Empowerment, referring to today's special election for council seats in Brooklyn and Staten Island.
Councilman Charles Barron (D-Brooklyn), the sponsor of the Voting Rights Restoration Act, said that years ago, when immigrants were mostly European, they had voting rights.
My wife walked in the room when I had the article up on the screen, read it and simply stated: "Only if they are from Mars." And she is a Democrat and has been her entire life.
UPDATE: Apparently, New York is attempting to catch up with Chicago, which along with a massive dead vote, also appears to have a substantial alien vote:
I always think the best question for one of those Prediential debates would be ..
What does it mean to be a citizen ?
These guys are trying to make it mean .. you can get a passport.