[EL] let noncitizens vote?

[Justin Levitt]

Jamie Raskin also does a nice job addressing the history (and policy) in 
/Legal Aliens, Local Citizens/, 141 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1391 (1993).

On 5/22/2011 11:28 AM, Michael McDonald wrote:
> Alexander Keyssar lists the states in his Right to Vote book. If I recall
> correctly, the number of states allowing non-citizens to vote declined
> mostly during the ascendency of the Know-Nothing Party in the mid-1850s. A
> few straggler states continued to allow non-citizens to vote into the early
> 1900s.
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-
>> election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of
>> john.k.tanner at gmail.com
>> Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 11:44 AM
>> To: Doug Hess; law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu; law-
>> election at department-lists.uci.edu
>> Subject: Re: [EL] equal numbers of VOTERS, rather than residents - let
>> noncitizens vote?
>>
>> It was practiced.  I believe that Arkansas permitted non-citizens to
>> vote as late as 1926
>> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Doug Hess<douglasrhess at gmail.com>
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>> Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 08:45:19
>> To:<law-election at department-lists.uci.edu>
>> Subject: [EL]  equal numbers of VOTERS,
>> 	rather than residents - let noncitizens vote?
>>
>> "One way to encourage people, particularly those in the "west," to
>> feel that they were Americans was to allow non-citizens to vote if they
>> intended to become citizens."
>>
>> That's really interesting. For how long did that go on? Or was it just
>> an argument, but not implemented?
>>
>> Doug Hess
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