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The Maryland city that drew national attention this week for passing a measure to allow illegal immigrants and other non-citizens to cast ballots in local elections said Friday night the change is void because it didn’t get enough yes votes.





Four of seven city council members in College Park, Md., voted on Tuesday night in favor of the measure.

But the city said late Friday that any amendment to the city charter requires six yes votes for passage.




While most measures before the city council require only a simple majority for passage, College Park in June increased the number of votes needed to amend the charter to seven, official also said.

The council is scheduled to revisit the issue at a meeting Tuesday of next week.

If the vote had stood, College Park, where the University of Maryland’s flagship campus is located, would have become the 11th municipality just in Maryland to allow non-citizens to vote in local races.



Council member Fazlul Kabir did not vote Tuesday and said his concerns were as much about the process as the measure.

“I think we went too fast and didn’t give our residents a chance to speak,” he told Fox News on Friday.

Kabir said the measure is a “good thing” because it gives more residents the opportunity to make elected officials more responsible.

“But the risk is that this could be a slippery slope,” he said. “Other cities can do this. And the change could trickle down beyond College Park to counties and states, and it could even become a national issue. That’s the risk I was feeling.”

San Francisco plans to allow non-citizens to vote in local board of education races beginning in 2018. In Massachusetts, the city of Cambridge and the town of Amherst have moved to introduce non-citizen voting and are awaiting approval, according to the Massachusetts State House News Service.

And for the past few years, New York City has weighed whether to allow non-citizens to participate in city elections.

Its a sad, sad, day when this is even considered. Question, why are the leftist ok with illegals trying to change the outcome of elections but are throwing investigations and millions at looking at what Russia did? Seems like because its ok as long as they win, to me.

Umm the article never mentioned Illegals. I know people like you think all non citizens are illegals.

I'm good with illegals not being able to vote in any election in the U.S. As for Non-citizen legal green card holders being allowed to vote on things such as their local school board directors or for dog catchers and such in their local township doesn't seem too crazy. But yeah I guess it could be looked at as a slippery slope. So I don't have a beef with this at all.

Calm down. I agree it's a slippery slope. I saw they did use the term Illegal. I fixed my post. Relax.

Texas just passed a law where you have to prove you are who you say you are with ID to vote.

why not just apply for citizenship if you want to vote?

I agree with that and they should also give voter ID cards free of charge to everyone that is eligible to vote if they want it.

And you are assuming they haven't.

This was actually proposed, and the left shot it down, "it was too hard for people to go get the id"

personal experience, yes.

My best friend was PRA for over 10 years. Just this year he decided he wanted to become a citizen. It took him less than 2 months to get citizenship. I asked him about the process, he said he was rather easy. A lot easier than his former country of Mexico.

Umm you do know you have to be in the USA for seven consecutive years before you can even apply for citizenship don't you?

Umm you do know you have to be in the USA for seven consecutive years before you can even apply for citizenship don't you? My wife is Canadian and her processing took over a year from start to finish and that was before 2001. It takes longer now and is more expensive.

Why should someone who is not a citizen have a right to vote for anything - local or national level?

Another story about my friend. His wife is American, born and raised. They wanted their daughter whom they were pregnant with to have duel citizenship. They had to move to mexico, have the baby there, and live there for a period of time for her to get citizenship in mexico. I asked why they did it that way, he stated "its much easier to get citizenship in USA then in Mexico". Weird huh?

Not really it's much easier to get a US citizenship then almost every country on the planet. It's called the American dream

why does it need to be easier?

California becomes a 'sanctuary state'

Gov Jerry Brown signed the Sanctuary State legislation yesterday.

The legislation bars police from sharing information about people with federal immigration agents unless that person has been convicted of certain crimes.

Seems Obstruction of Justice is now the Law in California.

They are only following the path of trump when it comes to obstructing justice.

Looks like we’re heading toward a California vs ICE stand off.

During the Civil War they called it Secession.

While unlikely to go that route, due to your recent rhetoric, I expect you and all these other conservatives to respect and support states rights if this goes down.

We will see how much states rights matters then.

States do not have a right to disobey the law.

Perhaps Trump will Federalized the National Guard and order them to arrest the Governor of California as is his right.

Kennedy did just that in Alabama in the 1960's with orders to hold open the schools as Governor Wallace had ordered the State Police to keep them Segregated.

Wonder if he national guard would respect that order.

That could turn bloody.

You’re advocating that Mattis put a bullet in the commander in chiefs ass?

Settle down, Maxine.

You can't stump the Trump.

States do not have a right to disobey the law.

Perhaps Trump will Federalized the National Guard and order them to arrest the Governor of California as is his right.

Kennedy did just that in Alabama in the 1960's with orders to hold open the schools as Governor Wallace had ordered the State Police to keep them Segregated.

You mean like federal marijuana laws that no one is doing anything about? Maybe they don’t have the right if no one enforces law, is it really a law?

On the books perhaps. But the law is going unenforced. What is Trump going to do, march the army in there? Remember the 9th Circuit is in San Francisco so you can be any legal challenge will go the way of the state and so far the feds have not been willing to let this go to the SC.