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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Republicans are right on this one. Citizenship should mean something.  You want to vote and participate in government, become a citizen. There is a well-established process for that.  The votes of citizens should never be outweighed by those of non-citizens.  This shouldn't even be controversial.[/quote]

This nonsense, right here is why Republicans still have the votes of moderates and some independents.This nonsense, right here is why Republicans still have the votes of moderates and some independence.

I realize this doesn’t matter in Washington DC but nationally it does. [/quote]

Agree 100%.  Allowing non-citizens to vote is simply stupid.  I have lived overseas on several occasions in democratic countries, and would never have even thought that I somehow was entitled in their elections. [/quote]

Plenty of countries allow non-citizens to vote in local elections. It’s a sensible idea and very much in keeping with America’s founding values.[/quote]
The idea that a “founding value” is that immediately after the revolution we would have turned around and allowed British citizens to vote in our elections makes zero sense.[/quote]

History disagrees with you: https://www.theregreview.org/2022/03/03/sheppard-precedent-noncitizen-voting/[/quote]
You should read the material that you post, including footnotes and citations. First of all, it is false that immediately following the formation of the US that non-citizens were allowed to vote. Second, when those provisions were adopted, there were not without the significant caveat that those persons were in the process of becoming US citizens. Look forward to the DC legislation adopting a similar provision.

As of 1874: “In Missouri, persons of foreign birth, who have declared their intention to become citizens of the United States, may under certain circumstances vote. The same provision is to be found in the constitutions of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, and Texas.”
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5978&context=etd#page=10
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In seizing upon the 1874 example, you curiously skipped over the part about how voting rights were steadily stripped from non-citizens due to the rise of white nationalism and anti-immigrant sentiment, beginning with the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts.[/quote]
You’re now contradicting yourself and I’m not sure what your point is anymore except to waste your time. [/quote]

The point is that you’re confused and are endorsing a position established by white nationalists.[/quote]

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