Republicans in Ohio are promoting a ballot measure that would prohibit noncitizens from voting in local elections, fighting what they see as a push for such access in liberal enclaves such as San Francisco and New York City.
"So if my monies are going to be going into a system to fund and make changes in my immediate community, or wherever I teach or I work or I socialize, then I — and other individuals like myself — should be able to put our voice behind individuals that align with your philosophy,” she said.
LaRose said at the news conference that, besides defying one of the key privileges of citizenship, allowing noncitizens to vote would create “a huge administrative lift and burden” for local boards of elections. That's something Housh also disagrees with. He said the Greene County Board of Elections told the village it was “quite confident” it could handle offering and counting ballots for the estimated 30 noncitizens who could have been added to the rolls.
Yellow Springs took its cue from Maryland, which has 11 of the 15 municipalities in the U.S. that have approved noncitizen voting. New York, San Francisco and two towns in Vermont round out the list. He estimated roughly 20 noncitizens were added to the rolls in a community of about 1,000 homes, and said the program has been without incident since it was passed in 2018.
In New York, more than 800,000 noncitizens and “Dreamers” — those brought to the U.S. as children — would be empowered to vote under its new law. A similar proposal is on the November ballot in Oakland, a city of about 420,000 across the bay from San Francisco. The city council in the District of Columbia, a city of more than 700,000, voted just this month to allow noncitizen voting.
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