Funding for Non-Citizen Voting Program Left Out of New York Budget as Legal Struggle Looms

Mayor Adams’s behavior suggests a hesitancy to fully support New York City’s ‘Our City, Our Vote’ law, which will enable some 800,000 non-citizen residents to vote in local elections.

AP/Yuki Iwamura file
Mayor Adams in January 2022. AP/Yuki Iwamura file

Despite promises to defend New York’s non-citizen voting law, which would allow some 800,000 residents to vote in municipal elections, Mayor Adams did not move to fund the program in his budget.

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