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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what are the requirements then? Residency? Or can each candidate bus in a boat load of supporter to get elected?[/quote]

The same as for citizens. You have to prove that you live there. The only difference is citizenship. Why would you think otherwise? Noncitizen residents work, pay taxes and have to deal with every kind of public policy, programs, schools, law enforcement, etc. [/quote]

Try not to be quite so stupid. Non citizens by and large do not pay taxes yet benefit from the programs that taxes fund like education, law enforcement, etc.  Now go back to gnawing on your government cheese, dummy.[/quote]

What taxes do legal residents not pay yet benefit from? They pay income taxes. They pay property taxes. They pay sales taxes. They pay excise taxes. You are clueless. [/quote]

Green Card holders generally have to live in the US at least 181 days per year and all must pay taxes here.  Actually they need to declare their entire worldwide income here.

However, “legal noncitizens” could be students on a visa or others on a short term visa - they do not pay taxes here, and do to their temporary nature  it seems insane to give them voting right, including locally.

For Green Card holders it’s debatable in my opinion, they are all eligible for citizenship,  if they take on the pain to go through the process.  The only tangible reward for going through the lengthy expensive process used to be “voting rights”.  So my personal opinion would  be they shouldn’t take this  away as a benefit for those investing into the process- because you only do this if you truly care about your new main country, and we should want, promote and incentivize this.

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