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Stacey Abrams ‘Wouldn't Oppose' Non-Citizens, Minors Voting in Local Elections
[Free Beacon] In a new interview on PBS, former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey "Tank" Abrams (D.) said she’s open to non-citizens and minors voting in municipal elections. Margaret Hoover, host of PBS’s "Firing Line," asked Abrams about progressive cities such as San Francisco where non-citizens can vote in local elections. Abrams said "there’s a big difference between municipal and state and federal" elections, and the larger democratic norms in the U.S. aren’t damaged by non-citizens voting on local matters. "I’m not arguing for it or against it, but I will say having been deputy city attorney, the granularity of what cities decide is so specific as to, I think, allow people to be participants in the process without it somehow undermining our larger democratic ethic that says that you should be a citizen to be a part of the conversation," Abrams said. Hoover pressed Abrams on whether she supports the idea, and she said she "wouldn’t oppose it." During her 2018 campaign for governor of Georgia, Abrams told supporters there would be a "blue wave" of Democratic victories fueled by many people, including "those who are documented and undocumented." At the time, the Washington Free Beacon contacted her campaign for comment and did not hear back. Posted by: Besoeker 2019-01-14 |
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