Washington, D.C.’s city council approved a measure last week that would allow noncitizens to vote in local elections starting in 2024. The Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2022 passed in a 12–0 vote (with one abstention) after multiple attempts to pass similar laws failed in recent years. If the bill is approved by Mayor Muriel Bowser, an estimated 50,000 noncitizens in the District could vote in races for mayor, city council, attorney general, the board of education, and advisory neighborhood commissioner, as well as for ballot initiatives.The bill was drafted by Councilmember Brianne K. Nadeau, who framed it as a pro-democracy measure. “People who have decided to make the Dist
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