[EL] equal numbers of VOTERS, rather than residents - let noncitizens vote?

[Dan Meek]

See Hayduk, Ronald (2006), /Democracy For All: Restoring Immigrant 
Voting Rights In The United States/, Routledge, ISBN 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number> 
9780415950732 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780415950732>.  A 
quick review is provided at 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_foreigners_to_vote_in_the_United_States

Dan Meek
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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-----
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> Subject: Re: [EL] equal numbers of VOTERS, rather than residents - let
> noncitizens vote?
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> It was practiced.  I believe that Arkansas permitted non-citizens to
> vote as late as 1926
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> 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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