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View: https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/rzt894/nyc_enacts_law_allowing_noncitizen_to_vote_in/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Suifuel for republicucks, eventually Democrats will do this on the Federal level. Then a Republican will never win another election.
[UWSL][UWSL]The way it is written, it also allows people who are:[/UWSL][/UWSL]
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[UWSL][UWSL]• H-1B workers[/UWSL][/UWSL]
[UWSL][UWSL]• F-1 visa students[/UWSL][/UWSL]
[UWSL][UWSL]• People with DACA[/UWSL][/UWSL]
[UWSL][UWSL]• TPS/asylum holders[/UWSL][/UWSL]
[UWSL][UWSL]• Diplomatic staff of consulates of foreign countries in NYC[/UWSL][/UWSL]
[UWSL][UWSL]• Members of foreign media (I visa)[/UWSL][/UWSL]
[UWSL][UWSL]• Foreign athletes (P visa)[/UWSL][/UWSL]
[UWSL][UWSL]• Flight attendants (D visa)[/UWSL][/UWSL]
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[UWSL][UWSL]to vote in local elections if they've been here for 30 days, since they are all "authorized to work in the United States."[/UWSL][/UWSL]
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[UWSL][UWSL]While I agree with the general intent of the bill, it seems to have been poorly thought out. Many of these people are NY tax nonresidents too, the same as people commuting in from NJ, who don't get a vote.[/UWSL][/UWSL]
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[UWSL][UWSL]The Indian H-1B visa holder who's lived here for 10 years waiting in the India green card backlog, it'd be great if they could vote. The NYU student from France who arrived in September, voting in a November election? Idk about that. And the diplomatic staff from Russia? No thanks.[/UWSL][/UWSL]
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[UWSL][UWSL]Where do I draw the line[/UWSL]? I don't know, but it's sure not here. Maybe at "a noncitizen who has been a full-year NYS tax resident in the year preceding the election" is better[/UWSL].
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