Starting this year, non-U.S. citizens will for the first time be able to vote in elections for local offices and on ballot questions in Washington, D.C.
Under the “Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2022,” which was passed by the D.C. Council in October 2022 and came in to effect in February 2023, any person who will be 18 by the time of the next general election, and who has proof of their residence in D.C. for at least 30 days prior to the election, will be able to vote in elections to local offices and on D.C. ballot questions.
In order to register to vote in the District of Columbia, non-citizens must not claim voting residence or the right to vote in any other state, territory, or country, and must not have been found by a court to be legally incompetent to vote.
There is a wide array of accepted forms of proof of 30-day residence listed by the D.C. Board of Elections (DCBOE), including utility, internet or phone service bills, paychecks, an “occupancy statement” from a D.C. homeless shelter, and a tuition or housing bill from a D.C. college or university.
Non-citizens may also register to vote by mail up until three weeks before the election, or participate in same day registration on the day of the election.
The DCBOE held a virtual townhall training session on April 30 for non-U.S. citizens looking to register to vote in the 2024 elections in D.C., that provides details on the non-citizen registration and voting process.
Non-citizen D.C. resident ballots will have the word “LOCAL” in large colored letters at the top, and will be marked with the letter “L.”
Non-citizen 30-day residents of D.C., under the 2022 amendment, may now vote for the offices of mayor, attorney general, D.C. Council members, State Board of Education members, Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners, and may also vote on initiative, referendum, recall, or charter amendment measures that appear on D.C. ballots.
Notably, this November an initiative to establish ranked-choice voting for D.C. elections beginning in 2026 may appear on the ballot.
The non-citizens will still be prohibited from voting in federal elections, however.
Why not just run a bunch of ballots over to Africa, the Middle East, Central America and the Caribbean and have them vote by mail-in ballots?
Only citizens should be voting.
Time to expel all the fools that support this.
Get ready .
They are here and more are coming .
Do you think the Augusta democrats aren’t thinking the same thing about the seventy five thousand “ New Americans “ they want to bring to our state ?
Not only will your taxes house them , feed them , educate them , and pay for their telephones , but then they can vote to get more more more of the same .
Once the seventy five get here , they’ll call their brothers and sisters ,cousins , aunts and uncles , whole extended families. Then we’ll miraculously have two hundred thousand . This is financial and cultural suicide for the state of Maine
VOTE the DEMOCRATS out in order to save our state ! .
And the advantage to being a citizen is?
If you remember this has similarities to how the Roman Empire fell apart. It takes a while but we are definitely far down the path. As empires become more degenerate they eventually crumble.
“Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
John Adams
My questions are these, does D.C. like most principalities, conduct both local and federal elections on the same day? When a non citizen registers in D.C. is there an NC, non citizen or L, local, next to their name so poll workers know they can only be givin a local elections bollot?
This November, non-U.S. citizens in Washington D.C. can vote in local elections for the first time. They need to be residents for at least 30 days. They can’t vote for presidential candidates or in federal election contests, but can vote for positions like mayor and on local issues.
What’s the point of being a citizen then.
This is fine. Hopefully the new voting non citizens will implement sharia law and then the non believing, criminals and homo sexual can be stoned.