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[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]

If you really think that giving non-citizens the right to vote in local elections will render your citizenship meaningless, you should probably stop talking about citizenship since you clearly don’t understand it. And there is not a “well-established process” that would enable many - if not most - long-term non-citizen residents to gain citizenship, even though many desperately covet it. Personally, I have no problem with local representatives being elected by the residents of their local district, regardless of where they were born or how much they’ve shelled out to immigration lawyers. Why would I? Is it really that important that one should throw thousands of dollars at lawyers and suffer through interminable administrative processes just so one can cast a vote in an uncontested ANC election just like all those citizens who inherited that right at birth?[/quote]

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