Noncitizen Voting is Illegal in NYC

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 29, 2022

Theodore Moore, vice president of policy at the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), joins to talk about how a Staten Island Supreme Court judge declared noncitizen voting, which would have given about 800,000 New Yorkers voting rights in municipal elections, unconstitutional.

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