San Francisco allows non-citizens to vote in school elections
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San Francisco has started registering undocumented immigrants and other non-citizens to vote in the city’s school board elections, according to reports.
The move has also been approved in Chicago and several other cities in Maryland and Massachusetts.
“We want to give immigrants the right to vote,” San Francisco supervisor Norman Yee told KGO .
The decision was the result of a 2016 ballot measure handed down by local voters — which opened school elections to city residents over the age of 18 who aren’t US citizens, so long as they have children in school system.
“As a parent myself and a former member of the SF Board of Education it is critical that the voices of all parents are at the table particularly those that have historically been denied a voice in the process,” said Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer of District 1.
“This is no-brainer legislation,” supervisor Hillary Ronen told the San Francisco Chronicle . “Why would we not want our parents invested in the education of their children?”
Republican leaders, however, blasted the idea.
“The reason I voted against it is that I think the right to vote is something that goes along with citizenship and should be,” said Harmeet Dhillon, who serves on the Republican National Committee.
The measure allowing non-citizen voting went into effect on Monday. It reportedly expires in 2022, but could be renewed by the board of supervisors. Some believe it will be used to target people coming into the country illegally
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The undoing of our democracy has begun. All of CA will eventually allow illegal alien voting and it will eventually, hopefully be up to the SCOTUS to act on this transgression.
Oooo, the old slippery slope argument...
Slippery slope is a valid argument.
Look at the PPACA.
It is what Democrats passed. But now many of them claim it is just a precursor to a Medicare-for-all plan. In other words, they passed it knowing and planning for something else all along.
I hope you can provide at least an speck of evidence for that being the "plan" or that is what "now many of them claim" it was meant to be a "precursor." During the health care debate in Congress liberals were pushing hard for the Medicare-for-All plan or at least the "option" for Medicare (I believe just for lowering the eligibility age to 55 rather than the current 65). "Moderate" Dems in the Senate torpedoed all that--first in a misguided and predictably futile attempt to lure just one "moderate" R to vote for it (aimed primarily at the two ME senators, Collins and Snowe--who to no one's surprise played Max Baucus along and then backed off). Dems could have passed the Medicare for All bill then but Obama settled and let Baucus run the show. So, what I remember is that with time, the liberals whose wishes were ignored felt they needed to go along with half a loaf with the hope that the PPACA might eventually give way to Medicare for All. There is really nothing about the PPACA that would make it a "precursor," i.e. something that could be modified somewhat into a complete Medicare for All plan. It was a private insurance based "product" all the way so it would have had to have been scrapped completely and replaced. In fact, I believe your Scumbag often promised something very much like that: Health insurance for everyone that would be cheaper and better than anything we have now. What happened to that promise?
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Medicare for all would be a lot easier to explain to the public than either Clinton's or Obama’s Affordable Care Act. The Clinton and Obama proposals were incredibly complex. The bill the Clintons sent to
Amazing! What a deflection!! They passed the PPACA, so by your logic we all now have Medicare for all???
The problem with your claim is that nowhere does it indicate that PPACA will transform into Medicare for all.
Keep in mind that when Medicare for all was brought up during the Obamacare debates, 80%+ American citizens wanted it as an option instead of what they got, it was only the filibustering GOP that refused to even allow it to be offered.
Oh, I see. Going to the tried-and-true bait-and-switch now, are we? First you just feed back to me exactly the point I made and pretend your telling me something I didn't just say. That's not exactly dishonest but sure is lazy as shit. But then you link to a 2018 article as if it somehow backs up your false narrative that this proves some imaginary thing you think happened in 2009. Of course, the Medicare-for-All is still alive and well--even more so now that Scumbag is proving the lie to his promise to come up with "insurance for everyone and cheaper" by sabotaging the PPACA when he failed to abolish it.
I didn't say that we have Medicare for all. You aren't paying attention.
You asked, I provided.
It isn't any concern of mine what you do with information you request when it is supplied to you.
It's beyond that - CA law dosen't allow non-citizens to vote at all! I suspect they are voting out there already
All across the EU, non-citizens (but citizens of other EU countries) are allowed to vote in local/municipal elections.
It's what is done in civilized places....
That is EXACTLY one of the reasons the EU is so fucked up right now.
No.
Nice rebuttal. How telling that's all you've got. LMFAO!
It was every bit as good as your completely unsupported claim. Why don't you try again?
Nonsense, the USA accept more new immigrants than any other country in the world. Every year and to this day. All of whom can earn the same rights as any other legal citizen.
As you know we have several cool little documents which guarantee such things. Like the Constitution and Bill of Rights, that afford legal citizens and States certain rights that non citizens and non States don't have and as previously noted, affords all those legal immigrants a legal path to earn the same rights as any other legal US citizen.
Yeah, how uncouth, how uncivilized .....
No.
Yes
Not even close when relative to total population.
So what? That doesn't change my comment. Besides, look how well that's working out for some other countries. One related news item i heard just this morning is that Canada "misplaced" about 50,000 Syrian refugees. No idea where they're at.
That's a fine example of a great immigration program which likely accepts more immigrant per capita than us ..... yah you betcha eh! Bring on the back-bacon.
Let's just throw out the word "Citizen".
I guess Trump was right all along.
"The federal government is allowing illegal immigrants to flow into the U.S. so they can vote, Donald Trump alleged without evidence,"
The evidence is right here in this article:
"San Francisco has started registering undocumented immigrants and other non-citizens to vote in the city’s school board elections, according to reports.
The move has also been approved in Chicago and several other cities in Maryland and Massachusetts."
The way things are going there, I may get to vote in America yet.
In local elections in California
Meanwhile citizens are being deprived of the vote in Red states.
Do you see a pattern?
Not "hinting".
Total bullshit, How abut some evidence? Oh right. You have none.
FYI preventing ILLEGALS from voting is EXPECTED in MOST states.
Gee any wonder why Trump lost the "popular vote"?
If you want to deny reality, that's fine with me.
Still waiting for your proof of your "reality".
Oh?
[not a voter ID law but having the same vote suppression effect]
Shall I go on?
I am about to propose a radical idea and I am curious as to how our liberal friends on here will respond s/
Liberals want undocumented aliens to be able to vote in our elections, essentially upsetting the balance this country has enjoyed for 200 years. If liberals are so concerned about illegal immigrant rights, why don't they travel to the countries where these people are from and promote there what they think are injustices here?
Liberals can go back to how they were decades ago and actually believed in equality, voter's rights, injustice in government and push that agenda in other countries.
Think about it. If liberals would use their resources to improve other countries, give the citizens there a reason to stay and fight for their own lifestyle, then the illegal population here will drop and out taxes can be used exclusively for American citizens and those that actually came here legally.
Now, I do understand that by doing this, democrats will lose potentially millions of new votes, but no one can argue, with a straight mind, that this country would not be better for it.
Who knows, maybe some of those that liberals help in their own countries will come here legally one day, and because they would remember how liberals and democrats helped them in their own countries, thy want to return the favor by voting democrat.
No.
Allowing non citizens to vote in our elections, any election, is simply opening the door for future allowances of the undocumented to vote. Democrats and liberals are not (cough) stupid (cough) to let their true plans out of the bag right away. They know that going under the radar for a few cycles is the way to go.
I notice you did not respond to my proposal. Is it because you know I am right when I say that democrats would lose millions of votes, and that is what scares you the most?
No.
If the loons in California think that illegal aliens should be able to vote now, why should I believe that they would have prevented illegal aliens from voting before?
Yes
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You say you want liberals to comment and then you immediately start the next paragraph with that blatant lie. You can't even hide the corrupt nature of your purpose long enough to describe it.
5.1.1 was an explanation of how liberals want to get to my comment in 5.
I understand reading more than one comment can confuse you. Sorry for doing so.
So, still a lie then.
Calling it a lie does not make it so. How about showing where it is a lie, with facts, and not just your opinion.
Hey don't worry about the obvious negative effects this will have on the country. It's all about building the constituent base!/s
We will fix it after we gain power back./s
The Russians “meddled” in our election to expose Hillary rigging her primary and the DNC colluding with the media. Democrats ignored what Hillary did and focused on the hack insisted. Now they openly register illegal aliens to vote so that foreigners who sneak into the country illegally can directly meddle in our elections by actually voting. Not only are Democrats demonstrating that they’re completely batshit crazy, but they’re also providing Republicans and Trump with a powerful talking point in their re-election campaigns.
The ads that Republicans can run this year, and are already running this year that shows the lunacy of the left will certainly bring a red wave. Just like the 16 election, many democrats will run away from the liberal batshit crazy base and vote for someone a little closer to their beliefs.
Democrats couldn’t do a better job to get Trump re-elected if he paid them to do it.
All true but the batshit crazy folks don't look at it that way. If you ask me Maxine has let the "genie" out of the box and they know they can't get it back in so they are embracing it to their own detriment.
Maxine Waters is more like a fart than a genie. Reach for the air freshener.
A fart for sure , the sad part is the amount of stench following her around wafting after her.
Thank you for so openly supporting a foreign government's success at rigging an election.
He did not say the Russians rigged the election, he said they exposed Hillary rigging the DNC primary and that the Russians MEDDLED with the election. Nobody is disputing the meddling.
Let me ask you this. If you guys say the Russians caused such a big hoopla as you believe, would you be OK with a Russian citizen living in the US legally voting in our election. If you say yes, you are a hypocrite. If you say no, then you have no basis for the argument you guys have been spewing for 2 years.
Choose your answer wisely.
Thank you for revealing that you support foreign meddling and criminal interference in our elections.
Good God, yet another projection. How about showing where I did what you accuse. Sorry to say, but if you can't contribute to any conversation, then maybe you need to move along.
It's understandable that you'd be upset at having your false narrative slapped down and would like nothing better than for me to go away but I'm afraid I just can't let you get off that easy. Maybe you need to stop shilling for a Scumbag of a president in his effort to keep colluding with Russia to undermine the thug dictator of that country's effort to undermine our elections.
Off topic again.