French high commissioner says death was not the result of police gunfire as unrest flares over plan to increase the number of French nationals eligible to vote in Pacific territory
Archived version: https://archive.ph/3akP7
As with a lot of Macron’s decisions: is it reasonable: probably. Should it be imposed? No.
Universal suffrage should not be up for debate with the mob.
10 years? In the US, Democrats voted to allow anybody to vote in local elections if they’ve lived there for 30 days.
I did some research into this out of curiosity. It turns out that the 30 day requirement for local and state elections was decided by the Supreme Court in Dunn v. Blumstein (1972) as an application of the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment, on the basis that states already allowed long-time residents to register to vote up to 30 days before an election and that restricting new residents from doing so was arbitrary.
That seems like pretty solid precedent and I would expect that this rule will never change, barring exceptional Supreme Court shenanigans.
Source: https://ir.law.fsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1928&context=lr
Here’s a couple articles about it. There are numerous articles though if you look it up. I’m pretty sure the link you posted has to do with US citizens moving to a different state. The guy was a US citizen and moved to Tennessee. That’s completely different than letting illegal aliens vote without having to swear allegiance to our country or swear off allegiances to any “foreign potentates” and their interests
Oh, the non-citizen voting stuff. Yeah, that’s kinda weird. It does seem like every instance so far has been for local or specifically school-board elections. Ballotpedia has a comprehensive article on it: https://ballotpedia.org/Laws_permitting_noncitizens_to_vote_in_the_United_States
I think my personal viewpoint is as follows:
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It is probably reasonable for legal resident aliens who have lived in a school district for 30 days and who have a child in the public school system to vote in school board elections.
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I don’t know what to think about legal resident aliens being able to vote in local municipal elections. I live in NYC (which attempted to enable this option, but it was struck down in court as violating the state constitution) and this would significantly alter the voting landscape of the city. I’ll have to think about it more.
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I don’t think that undocumented resident aliens should be able to vote in any elections.
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I don’t think that legal or undocumented resident aliens should be able to vote in state elections.
And of course the right to vote in federal elections has been explicitly reserved to US citizens by congress.
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