In November 2022, the Washington, D.C. city council passed an ordinance letting adult residents vote for city office, whether they are citizens or not. Congress may veto ordinances passed by the D.C. city council, but this ordinance survived. Although the US House voted to cancel it, the Senate did not, and the period for congress to have done that expired February 23, 2023.
Has anyone filed a referendum to repeal this? If it is not repealed via referendum, perhaps a lawsuit could throw it out. If the courts are too corrupt to throw it out, somebody could file a ballot initiative petition to throw it out.
I don’t think that this will help the case for DC statehood.
It does help the case for kicking DC transforming DC into another country and building a wall around it.
How soon before China/Russia killers can vote in DC — esp for Prez/VP via 23 AMDT ???
I agree with Andy. Kick D.C. OUT AND BUILD A WALL, SCREW THESE COMMIE UNAMERICAN SUBHUMAN TRAITOR MUDSLIMES!!!!
Lawsuit would be the way to go. Start with not counting their electors until they undo this for starters. They should have never been counted to begin with. Not much faith in district of commie/criminals referendum. Same turd world/commie idiots that elected this city council would vote on the referendum plus all the ineligible aliens this corrupt bull enfranchises . Therefor either these idiots will elect a better city council (won’t happen) or they need to feel some pain such as not having any action of their city council approved by the US House or at least their electoral votes rejected.
It’s interesting to notice that the US Constitution does not specific how Presidential Electors are to be chosen, or who may choose them. It’s entirely up to each state.
However, in the case of DC, the 23rd amendment specifically says that Congress shall determine the manner in which they are selected. Presumably, Congress would have to vote positively to authorize non-citizens to vote for electors in DC, and not merely defer to the local government.
Article II of the Constitution gives wide latitude to the legislature of each state as to how it may choose its Presidential electors. The two most common methods have been, either to have the state legislature itself choose its electors (altho, this method hasn’t been used in over 150 years), or by popular vote, according to several different voting methods.
But, even these choices don’t exhaust the possibilities of how electors may be chosen.
For instance, one possibility is that they could be chosen by lottery. The State of Nevada could say “You know what? The Presidential election has pretty much become a toss-up, even in our own state. So, lets just draw the electors by lot from all the registered voters, the way we choose jurors.”
Or, at the other extreme, a state to open up the choice of electors even to people living outside its own state. The State of California could say: “You know what? The election of the President is too important today to be left just to the people of our state, or even to just our own country. We should let everyone from anywhere in the world who wants to cast votes for our electors by mail in ballots.”
Now, I’m not recommending either of these possibilities. I’m just saying that the language of Article II is broad enough to include a whole range of voting methods not yet tried, or even contemplated.
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The Electoral College is one of the most under appreciated parts of our constitution. It makes the election of the President possible in a wide variety of ways. Most importantly, it does not require all states to all use plurality voting. There is no reason for different states not to use different voting methods. Without the Electoral College, this would not be possible.