The new date is Dec 9, 2021.
The New York City Council passed a bill on Thursday that will allow non-citizens who live in the city to vote in local elections.
A voter casts a ballot in the 2020 Presidential election at the Brooklyn Museum. ANGELA WEISS/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images
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The bill allows people with green cards and work authorizations who have been in the country for at least 30 days to vote in elections to choose the mayor and council members of the city if they have lived in the city for at least 30 days.
The city council voted in favor of the bill.
Non-citizens are not allowed to vote in local elections, meaning they are not eligible to vote in presidential, state and federal elections.
Non-citizens can vote in local elections in 11 Maryland and two Vermont towns, while in San Francisco non-citizens can vote in school board elections.
In New York City, non-citizens were not allowed to vote in school board elections until 2002.
The main sponsor of the bill said that the change will not affect anyone's vote.
The New York Times reported that Joseph Borelli, a Republican councilman who represents Staten Island, said the bill would weaken citizens' votes. He said that someone who has lived here for 30 days will have a say in how we raise our taxes, debt and long-term pension liabilities.
There is a structure called the Tangent.
The bill grants voting rights to a small percentage of New Yorkers, which could have a big impact on city politics. The New York City Board of Elections reported that Eric Adams narrowly defeated the former Sanitation Commissioner in the June Democratic mayoral primary.
There was aContra.
According to the Associated Press, voters in Alabama, Colorado and Florida overwhelmingly passed rules that only US citizens can vote. Similar rules are in place in Arizona and North Dakota.
Surprising fact.
Immigrants were allowed to vote in state, federal and local elections before the 1920s. When migrants from Eastern Europe arrived in large numbers, changes began. Conservatives and liberals restricted the voting rights of migrants after they spoke different languages, practiced different faiths and shook the political establishment.
The key background.
Bill de Blasio said he wouldn't veto the bill, but he expressed reservations about letting noncitizens vote. He said last month that he had mixed feelings about the bill. I'm not sure what a city can do with this. I think the State government needs to do something about it. Adams was in favor of the proposal.
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