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To: Thehammer who wrote (753379)11/29/2021 6:21:05 PM
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When people in my state get a drivers license they are immediately registered to vote and are allowed to vote in local elections regardless of status or citizenship. Fourteen states all together allow this.

Noncitizen suffrage in local elections As of June 2021, 14 municipalities in the U.S. allowed noncitizens to vote in some or all local elections. One was in California, 11 were in Maryland, and two were in Vermont.

Joshua A. Douglas, associate professor of law at the University of Kentucky College of Law, published an article in 2017 stating, "Municipalities can expand voting rights in local elections if there are no explicit state constitutional or legislative impediments and so long as local jurisdictions have the power of home rule." Some states, for example, require that changes to local charters get approval from state legislatures, thereby limiting municipal authority over voter eligibility laws, whereas other states do not. [7]

Douglas identified 14 states—including California and Maryland—as posing no clear impediments to municipalities passing their own voter qualification laws:


  • Arkansas
  • California
  • Colorado
  • Illinois
  • Maryland
  • Nevada
  • New Jersey
  • New Mexico
  • Ohio
  • Oklahoma
  • Rhode Island
  • South Dakota
  • Washington
  • Wisconsin




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