Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Taking back the rights of citizenship...

NEWS

On March 14, conservative KABC radio show host and attorney James V. Lacy filed a lawsuit against San Francisco with the aim to prohibit the counting of votes cast by persons who are not American citizens in San Francisco Unified School District elections. The lawsuit targeted a 2016 city ordinance (206-21) comparable to New York’s “Our City, Our Vote” measure passed in December 2021, which enabled 800,000 foreign nationals to participate in local elections.

Lacy’s lawsuit proved successful. 

Superior Court Judge Richard B. Ulmer Jr. struck down the law on July 29, just as State Supreme Court Judge Ralph J. Porzio had New York’s noncitizen voting law on June 27. 

Ulmer asserted that the city ordinance, which conferred voting rights to foreign nationals (including “green card holders, work visa holders, refugees” and illegal aliens), was “contrary to the California constitution and state statues and thus cannot stand.” As Fox News has highlighted, Ulmer questioned the now-defunct law's logic, which could have been cited to permit "children under 18 and residents of other states [to] vote in California elections."

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