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Noncitizen Voting Rights

The city stressed that Local Law 11 required municipal noncitizen voters to meet the same registration procedures imposed on citizen voters.

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Feb 7, 2026

What specific legal arguments did New York City lawyers present to the Court of Appeals in defense of the 2021 noncitizen voting law?

lawyers told that was a legitimate exercise of municipal self‑governance and home‑rule power that did not conflict with or state election statutes, and that plaintiffs were reading the constitution’s ...

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