New York City poised to give voting rights to noncitizens

  New York City, long a beacon for immigrants, is on the cusp of becoming the largest place in the United States to give noncitizens the right to vote in local elections. Legally documented, voting-age noncitizens comprise nearly one in nine of the city’s seven million voting-age inhabitants. Under a bill nearing approval, some 800,000 […]

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