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« on: September 13, 2017, 01:30:34 PM »

This...this can't be constitutional, let alone should not be allowed.

One of the privileges of being a citizen is having the right to vote.  You can't just walk into the United States and vote.

This is ridiculous.

I mean, you can be for or against this (it seems clear based on the narrowness of the vote that it was a controversial decision within the community), but a great deal of 19th-century precedent suggests that this is constitutional, and would in fact be constitutional if adopted on the state level; it is only federal elections (so, presidential and congressional races) that non-citizens are constitutionally barred from voting in.
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