Must One Be A Citizen To Vote?

cawacko

cawacko

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I'm reading my ballot booklet and there is a Propostion in San Francisco that would allow illegals to vote in school board elections. In the subsequent argument sections in favor of the Prop it states "The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly stated that citizenship is not a requirement to vote. The California State Constitution protects a citizen's right to vote, but does not exluce immigrants from voting.""

Is that right?
 
In theory, yes

In reality, no

No proof of citizenship is required to register to vote in most places, only a photo ID

Just check the box that says you are a citizen and thats it.....

No one will check up on you, no one will investigate.

Citizens ARE losing our country to apathy...and once its gone, we won't get it back.
 
cawacko said:
I'm reading my ballot booklet and there is a Propostion in San Francisco that would allow illegals to vote in school board elections. In the subsequent argument sections in favor of the Prop it states "The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly stated that citizenship is not a requirement to vote. The California State Constitution protects a citizen's right to vote, but does not exluce immigrants from voting.""

Is that right?
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It depends. In elections for federal office I believe you have to be a citizen to vote, but if a city decided that all residents could vote in municipal elections, including resident aliens, I don't see any problem with it.
 
Nothing is a requirement to vote at the federal level, since elections aren't run at that level. All of the laws that prevent non-citizens from voting are at the state level. At one point in time legal resident (not illegals) non-citizens in 20 states could vote for all offices, including that of president (which, if you remember, is technically a statewide election), but I'm not sure if even any localities allow legal residents to vote anymore.

I'm not sure if anyone has ever explicitly allowed illegals to vote.
 
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